《fall into darkness》


 Disaster rainy season.

    The rainstorm is coming. The sky that has just been scattered with sunshine is instantly shrouded in dark clouds, and the downpour is pouring down. The residents of the slum who are about to go out for activities immediately hide in their houses in fear, for fear of being splashed by the rain. onto the body.


    The rainwater accumulated on the streets and spread rapidly in the slums. Some low-lying slum houses had been submerged by the rainwater to the thresholds. The drainage system that had not been repaired had no effect at this moment. In a moment, the entire outer slums Have become a vast ocean.


    In Meishan Orphanage.


    At the door of the residential house, a woman who looked to be in her thirties led more than a dozen children between the ages of seven to eighteen to eleven or twelve. They hurriedly carried sandbags that had already been made and piled them on the threshold, blocking the surging waves. incoming rainwater.


    "Du Dian, come and help soon!"


    "It''s no use calling him, he''s a fool."


    "It''s maddening!"


    Several boys were sweating profusely while holding the sandbags. They were a little angry when they saw a little boy standing quietly in front of the window not far away, but they knew it was useless, so they could only grit their teeth and continue to put the sandbags in their hands. Sent to the door.


    The little boy in front of the window looked about seven or eight years old, with a thin stature. Still, he was similar in size to other eleven or twelve-year-old children, and the most conspicuous thing was his complexion, which was extremely fair, even a little morbidly pale. Compared with the tanned and dirty skin of other people who are exposed to strong light and ultraviolet rays, it is incompatible with this, which makes many children envious.


    But Du Di''an was sighing inwardly. This is the sequelae caused by the freezer. Although he has left the freezer for more than three months, his body has not recovered, and his whole body can''t lift his strength. In modern medicine, it is muscle Asthenia.


    Just standing is exhausting.


    Not to mention carrying sandbags to block the rain.


    However, this situation has been regarded as a fortune in misfortune. After all, when the disaster spread to Huaxia, the scientific research institute had just made the first freezer and had not had time to enter the experimental stage. No one knew whether such or such failures would occur. He would be able to remain intact in the freezer. Sleeping for three hundred years is already a small miracle.


    It''s just that he wasn''t happy.


    He did survive, but his parents and sister, who made the freezer, stayed behind. In the face of that terrifying disaster, even if they survived very, very lucky, now three hundred years later, they have long since been buried. in the dust.


    In this vast world, he no longer has half of his relatives, and from now on, he will face this world alone, alone.


    He did not despair. Although he was sad and sad, his parents gave him two lives. He would never allow himself to be decadent. Parents and sisters are so proud of themselves!!


    Fortunately, God finally sheltered the human race. When he just climbed out of the freezer, he originally thought that there was only one person and one life left on the earth until he walked out of the garbage dump where the freezer was buried. , only to find that human beings have not been extinct. It seems that a few people survived that disaster, and after three hundred years of reproduction and development, it has a good scale.


    It is a pity that the disaster has completely destroyed civilization and technology three hundred years ago. He saw and heard during this time, he did not see or hear anything that symbolized the technology of the old era. The power of the planet makes even basic life extremely difficult.


    While his thoughts were flying, the storm outside the window gradually stopped.


    Seeing that the water level in front of the threshold stopped rising, everyone in the house breathed a sigh of relief, as if they had experienced a protracted battle, and everyone felt exhausted. At this time, the middle-aged woman looked at the sky and saw that the dark clouds were gradually dissipating a little, revealing the cloudy sky, and she knew that it would not come down again for a while, so she immediately said: "I''m going to the cafeteria to eat, wear wax straw sandals. ."


    When all the children heard the word "eat", their eyes lit up, their previous tiredness was swept away, and they went back to their rooms, put on their wax straw sandals, and lined up neatly.


    "Dian, go put on your shoes and get ready to eat." At this time, a voice from the back of the team called Du Di''an. It was a seven- or eight-year-old boy. He just finished speaking, and he seemed to think of something. He patted his head and went up. Front patted Du Dian on the shoulder, and gestured with one hand, pointing in the direction of the cafeteria, while the sleeve of the other arm was empty.


    Du Di''an remembers him. His name is Barton. He is one of the few children in the courtyard who has the kindness to him. This probably has something to do with him. After three hundred years of changes, the language has been renovated. When he first came to the orphanage, he could not understand it. Others don''t speak their language, and they can only be silent. Over time, everyone thinks that he is a little stupid and that he may have a problem with his IQ.


    So naturally, he was divided into a group of deformed children like Patton.


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    The children of the orphanage are divided into two factions, one is healthy and abandoned by their parents, and the other is physically deformed and abandoned by their parents. In this world, even children have already learned to live in groups.


    Du Dian nodded, indicating that he understood, and then followed Barton to the back of the team. Barton just wanted to ask Du Di''an to change into the waxed straw shoes first, but he looked down inadvertently and found that Du Di''an was already wearing a pair of light green high-top shoes under his trousers, and he couldn''t help but be dumbfounded.


    In this world, plastic has not been invented yet. The shoes and clothes made of wax grass have become the most commonly used rain gear. This is a kind of natural mutant grass, which can be seen everywhere. The leaves are large and the waxy layer on the surface can effectively block radiant rainwater. , has become a must-have item in every household.


    Everyone carefully walked along a half-meter-high path paved with narrow stones in front of the threshold. The accumulated rain only flooded to the ankles. If they accidentally fell into the water, even the strongest adults would inevitably get seriously ill.


    When we got to the cafeteria, everyone immediately started to grab seats. The limited seats were immediately swept away by the healthy children in front. Du Di''an, Barton, and other children with deformities were already used to it. They came to the corner at the back. Here are a few. The piled stones are their dining table.


    "I heard that there are doctors and wall builders among the adopters who came here this time."


    "Auntie Dai said, let us seize this opportunity and perform well."


    "I would be very happy if I could be adopted by a doctor."


    "I hope to be adopted by the wall builders. Maybe I hope to climb the Sylvia Wall and see the world outside the giant wall."


    Before the food was delivered, Barton and several other children chatted in a low voice. These children either had missing ears or half of their faces were full of tiny meat bumps, none of them looked normal.


    When Du Dian heard their words, his eyes flashed and he was silent.


    "Unfortunately, Dean''s brain is not good, otherwise Dean''s appearance and body will definitely be selected by those people." After chatting for a while, Barton sighed suddenly, glanced at Du Dian, and said regretfully.


    The other children looked at Du Di''an who didn''t respond, and all shook their heads and sighed.


    They have already negotiated that no matter who is adopted, they must do their best to come back and help the rest. In terms of appearance alone, Du Di''an is undoubtedly the most promising to be adopted, but there is something wrong with his brain. It''s more serious than a physical problem. For example, the child with flesh pimples on half of his face. Although he looks scary, he has healthy hands and feet and a normal IQ. At least he can do coolies and find a job.


    "Hmph, a bunch of broken things, they still want to fight us for the chance to adopt." At this time, the thin child in a nearby seat heard Barton''s words and said coldly and contemptuously.


    His words immediately attracted the attention of others, and for a while, the eyes of contempt and disgust fell on Du Di''an, Barton, and others.


    Compared with deformed children, those who are healthy but abandoned have heavier anger in their hearts.


    Du Di''an glanced at these people lightly and didn''t say anything. Although he was also a child, he saw a lot of things, and there was a deepness in his heart that many adults did not have.


    And this pattern of his, in the eyes of these people, is "stupid".


    "Look at this idiot, I can''t understand even if I scold him."


    "A guy with a broken head, no wonder he was abandoned!"


    "Do you still want to be adopted? Just wait until you''re thirteen and be thrown into a mine to mine!"


    These children do not hide their contempt and disgust in the slightest and take pleasure in it.


    At this time, the food was delivered, and the middle-aged woman who brought them over said softly, "Be quiet, don''t you want to eat?"


    After hearing this, the arrogance of these children subsided, their faces were innocent as if nothing had happened just now.


    ...


    the next day.


    The silver-gray dark clouds gradually stretched out, and the sun shone into the slums.


    In the rainy season, this is a rare sunny day.


    It just so happens that today is also a long-awaited big day for the children of Meishan Orphanage - Adoption Day!


    All the families who made an appointment in advance came to the orphanage one after another on this day to select their satisfied children.


    Early in the morning, Du Di''an got up on time. Although there was no alarm clock in this world, his biological clock never went wrong. After getting up, he made up the bedding, washed his face with simple filtered well water, and picked up another set next to the pillow to wash it. The white, coarse cloth clothes were just about to be put on, and suddenly there was a soft little ball inside.


    Du Dian was stunned for a moment, and he couldn''t help thinking of the little girl who led him to this orphanage on a cold night, but unfortunately, it was dark and he couldn''t see the other side''s face clearly. During the three months in the orphanage, Naturally, people who can afford this delicate fabric are definitely high-class people in the outer wall area.


    The handkerchief still had black spots left over from wiping his face, and it couldn''t be washed.


    After a while of silence, Du Dian put the handkerchief in his arms, then changed his clothes and ran to the open space outside the orphanage.


    Although he has only one parent in his heart, he has to let himself be adopted as soon as possible. If a child who has not been adopted by the age of 13 will be abandoned by the orphanage and sent to the back of this Meishan orphanage Mining in the mines controlled by the "Meishan Coal Mine Chamber of Commerce" has become permanent free labor, until the death of exhaustion and old age, there will never be a chance to see the sun again.


    Like Du Di''an, on this day, all the children in the orphanage were "dressed up", washed themselves cleanly, and put on clothes that they were reluctant to wear for a long time, and these clothes were distributed when they first entered the orphanage. sackcloth clothes down.


    If your body smells bad, no one wants to come near you.


    This is what Auntie Day told them.


    Looking around, before the rain-soaked sand in front of the orphanage, stood a large group of children, but they were vaguely divided into two camps, the healthy and the deformed.


    After all the children stood up, the adults who came to adopt them, led by Aunt Dai and other orphanage caregivers, came to the children and looked at the group of orphans who might become their own children.


    "Hello, uncle and aunt."


    Under the guidance of Aunt Dai, except for Du Di''an and several other deformed people who can''t speak, all the other children shouted obediently, their black eyes were full of innocence, and their faces were full of longing and hope to greet the adults. , this fiery gaze made some adults feel embarrassed and unbearable.


    Soon, Du Di''an, who was thin but tall in the crowd, became the target of all the adults'' attention. His pale skin as the snow was too striking, and his temperament was completely different from the children around him. What was the difference, the adults also said No, I just feel that this child is very calm and has a kind of extravagance, yes, it is extravagance?


    This surprised many adults. They didn''t expect that there would be such outstanding seedlings in the orphanages in the slums.


    For a time, many adults were moved.

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    The other children noticed this sensitively. One of them, a petite 10-year-old girl, immediately said, "All uncles and aunts, he is Du Di''an. He has a problem with his brain. He likes to be in a daze and can''t speak. Don''t take it off.


    Although she is young, the harsh living environment has made her learn extremely smart. This is very clever. It does not appear that she is jealous, but also points out Du Di''an''s flaws, and sells it well.


    "Yeah yeah!"


    "Uncles and aunts don''t know him in the same way."


    The other children reacted with hindsight and hurriedly agreed.


    Barton and several other children who lived in the same room as Du Di''an looked at the little girl who took the lead in surprise. They didn''t seem to expect that she would speak out. At this moment, when they heard the words of other children of the healthy faction, they couldn''t help but look ugly, but they didn''t dare to. Speaking for Du Dian, for fear of leaving a bad impression on these adults.


    Du Di glanced at the little girl lightly and was a little surprised. In his impression of the past three months, he remembered that this little girl was one of the few healthy children with a good personality. It is to the deformed children such as Patton, and he never speaks harshly, especially this little girl, who is very gentle to everyone. Even Patton and other deformed children mention her in private chat, and they are full of praise.


    Du Di''an also has a good impression of her, remembering her name, it seems to be... Lisa?


    At this time, when these adults heard Lisa''s words, there was a sudden glimpse in their eyes. It was no wonder that a child with such clean skin and such a delicate appearance would be abandoned. For a time, many adults felt regretful.


    Seeing the expressions of the adults, Lisa and the other able-bodied children were immediately relieved.


    "All uncles and aunts."


    In vain, without any warning, a young voice sounded from the crowd, and all the children and adults looked at it in surprise. Suddenly, all the children widened their eyes as if they had seen a ghost because it was Du Di''an who spoke!


    During the three months of life in the orphanage, Du Di''an observed and listened carefully every day in silence, and learned a lot of simple terms. Moreover, the orphanage also had essential speech and pronunciation teaching, even if it was a dilapidated orphanage. A baby around the age of 2, although he did not join, he learned a lot from eavesdropping.


    It''s just that the people around him have long regarded him as a mute, and they usually communicate with him with gestures, and no one comes to chat with him, so he simply doesn''t bother to speak, and is happy to be quiet.


    "I don''t have any problems with me." Du Di''an said calmly.


    The immature voice gave people an unquestionable illusion.


    The adults were a little surprised. The next moment, they seemed to understand something. One after another, they turned their eyes towards Lisa who had spoken earlier. When they saw the shocked face of the little girl, they couldn''t help but be stunned slightly. Soon the adults discovered that other The child also looked surprised, only then did he know that the problem was not with the little girl, but with Du Di''an.


    For a time, many adults frowned.


    One of the sturdy, dark-skinned middle-aged men said with a sullen face: "Looking at their expressions, they don''t seem to know that you can speak. Can you tell me why you are hiding them?"


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    The most taboo thing for adults is to adopt a child who is full of thoughts and has no sense of security.


    Du Di''an knew he had stepped on a line in these people''s hearts, but he was very calm and said, "I didn''t hide it from them deliberately, but I was autistic and didn''t like to talk. They regarded me as dumb, and I let them go. ."


    Hearing his words, the coldness in the eyes of the adults gradually eased. Most orphans have autism, and they understand and understand.


    "Even if you are autistic, you are so old in the orphanage, you can''t have said a word, right?" A fat-faced woman in the crowd asked suspiciously.


    Before Du Di''an could speak, Aunt Dai next to him said first: "That''s it, this child loves cleanliness, we specially allocated him a separate room, so there is no chance to communicate with other children."


    As soon as these words came out, Du Di''an, Barton, and the other children were all slightly startled. They didn''t know why Aunt Dai lied. No child in the orphanage could enjoy a room alone.


    Du Di''s heart moved and immediately understood. In this regard, today''s orphanages are similar to the orphanages of the old days. They will package the children in the courtyard to perfection and cover up the flaws to the smallest extent. If these adults are allowed to I know, that Du Dian has only been admitted to the hospital for three months. Even if his conditions are good, no one is willing to adopt him, because seven or eight-year-old children already have memories, and they must remember their biological parents. No one can guarantee him. , will he leave himself to find his parents again.


    Knowing this, Du Di''an sank slightly, glanced at the other children, and saw those able-bodied children and Lisa, who seemed to be about to say something, at this moment, Du Di''an saw Aunt Dai''s back to the adults. , glared at Lisa and the children who were about to speak, and their faces turned pale with fright.


    In the orphanage, Aunt Dai has the power to kill all of them. As long as Aunt Dai speaks, they will never have the chance to be adopted.


    As for why Aunt Dai helped him, Du Di''an certainly wouldn''t narcissistically think he had any special personality charm, but the sooner he was adopted, the less food would be consumed in the orphanage.


    "So it is." The fat-faced woman came to her senses, looked at Du Dian sympathetically, and said, "Child, I chose you, and you will be my child in the future."


    As soon as these words came out, Barton and several other children who had a good relationship immediately looked at Du Dian enviously and were happy for him.


    Du Di''an glanced at the fat-faced woman''s clothes and palms, seeing that her fingers were rough, and at first glance, she was doing hard work, she couldn''t help frowning slightly, and was about to say no, when suddenly another person smiled: "I see this child It''s very pleasing to the eye, and I think, with my conditions, it is more suitable to be the parent of this child."


    Everyone looked at him and saw a middle-aged man with a mediocre appearance, with a faint smile on his face.


    The fat-faced woman''s expression changed, and she said coldly, "I would like to hear, what kind of big man you are."


    The middle-aged man smiled slightly and said, "I can''t talk about a big man, I''m just a little gardener in Mel''s family."


    Hearing this, everyone was stunned. The children didn''t react much, but the surrounding adults couldn''t help but change their colors. Some of them whispered, "The Mel family? Is that the Mel family?"


    "In addition to the Mel family, which Mel family can afford a gardener?"


    For a time, everyone looked at the middle-aged man with a bit of awe.


    The fat-faced woman''s face turned pale, and she lowered her head and said nothing.


    "How is it, child?" The middle-aged man was very satisfied with the other people''s reactions and looked at Du Di''an with a smile.


    Lisa and the other children, including the deformed children such as Barton, are smart, and they can see some clues at this moment. They look at Du Di''an with envy and jealousy. It''s a bit big!


    Du Di''an frowned slightly and was silent for a while before saying: "Sorry, uncle, I hope my parents are doctors, so I feel more secure."


    This is a refusal.


    The middle-aged man was a little stunned. He didn''t seem to expect that Du Di''an would refuse. He went to many orphanages to find children with good eyesight. All of those children were excited when they heard that they could be adopted. There is no such thing as Du Di''an. Calm and methodical.


    Soon, the middle-aged people came to their senses. Although everyone in the Meishan family knew nothing about this outer wall area, these children didn''t even know what a "gardener" was. After all, the world they lived in was too far apart.


    Of course, Du Di''an knows what a gardener is, and from the expressions of those adults, this "Mel''s family" must also be a great behemoth, but even with a name.


    He also doesn''t want his parents to be slaves.


    The mere gardener...proud of what?

 A New Beginning

    "Doctor?" Hearing Du Di''an''s words, a young woman in a gray and white gown in the crowd suddenly lit up and said to Du Di''an: "Little boy, I am a doctor, are you willing to be my child?"


    Du Di''an had noticed her for a long time, but she didn''t expect to ask her before she took the initiative to speak. He originally rejected the gardener with a risky attitude. He thought that others were afraid of offending each other and dared not choose himself. , Now it seems that the identity of the other party does not seem to be so scary.


    Du Di''an didn''t know that doctors were rarer in this world than he thought. Although they were still civilian occupations, they were the only high-level occupations among the many civilian occupations that could come into contact with nobles. Naturally, no one dared to ask for the child he liked, but a mere gardener''s servant could at most restrain some ordinary civilians who were first-class "miners" and "tailors".


    Du Di''an just looked at her head-on. The lines of his cheeks were very soft, and there were two shallow dimples when he smiled, which made him think of the gentle appearance of his mother when he prepared breakfast for him. After a while, he nodded lightly and said, "I will."


    The face of the previous middle-aged man was a little ugly, but when he looked at the young woman, he held back and didn''t say much, but secretly felt sorry for Du Di''an, after all, he was too young and his knowledge was short. Although the doctor was good, not everyone. Children of doctors can learn the skills of their parents. This is an extremely difficult career to get into. If you spend a lot of energy, you will not learn it in the end. If you want to change careers, it is too late, you can only become low-level coolies.


    But the gardener is different. As long as you have a good memory, you can start quickly. As a gardener of Mel''s family, not only can you get out of the dirty places like the slums immediately, but you can also inherit his gardener status in the future and stay in Mel for the rest of your life. Home life is a good thing that no one else can dream of.


    What a pity, what a pity!


    The middle-aged man shook his head.


    When other children saw that the young woman who was a doctor had chosen Du Dian, they couldn''t help but look ugly. Barton and other deformed children were better. Although they were a little jealous, they were more envious. For those healthy children, this is undoubtedly true. It was Du Di''an who stole their precious opportunity, and he couldn''t help feeling resentment and jealousy in his heart.


    The other adults felt a little pity, and such excellent orphans were rare.


    Aunt Dai''s eyes showed a smile. Du Di''an was one of the few children in the orphanage who was pleasing to her eye. "Du Di''an is very obedient and well-behaved here with us. I hope you will take good care of him in the future, and I wish your family happiness."


    "I will." The young woman smiled and was extremely happy in her heart.


    "Mina, take them to go through the household registration procedures." Aunt Dai said to a middle-aged woman next to her.


    This middle-aged woman named ''Mina'' waved to Du Dian and smiled at the young woman: "Come with me."


    "Dian, come on!"


    "Dean, don''t forget us!"


    "Remember to come back to see us when you have time!"


    Barton and other deformed children are reluctant to part.


    Du Dian has received a lot of care from them in the past three months, and smiled: "I will come back but don''t be too discouraged, maybe when I come back, you will all be adopted."


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    Although Barton and other deformed children knew about themselves, they still laughed.


    "I''ll choose you." When Du Di''an was about to leave, he suddenly heard the words of the middle-aged gardener, and he couldn''t help looking at him, only to see him pointing at Lisa in the crowd, and saying with a smile: "Little girl, you are very kind. Sweet, how about being my daughter?"


    Lisa stared at him blankly, with an expression of disbelief.


    The other able-bodied children who were crowding around her couldn''t help but look at her with admiration.


    Du Di''an took a look, then withdrew his gaze, walked to Aunt Mina, followed her and the "mother" who was about to become his name and left the open space.


    From now on, he and the other children in this orphanage will each live in their own families, and they may never meet again.


    ...


    ...


    The household registration procedure for the orphanage is very simple.


    First, verify the identity of the adopter.


    Second, verify the employment certificate of the adopter.


    The purpose of the above two points is to confirm whether the adopter meets the adoption conditions stipulated by the law.


    If there is no work or work is the cheapest coolie, you are not eligible to adopt a child.


    The last third point is to sign a contract to confirm the adoption relationship between the two parties, and at the same time transfer the household registration that the orphanage had applied for Du Dian to the adopter''s name.


    Lastly, and most importantly, is the adoption payment!


    Yes, this is the main source of income for the orphanages of this world. In the old orphanages, you only needed to meet the conditions for adoption, and no money was needed, but here is different. Calling adoption is actually equivalent to "selling off". In a sense, it is the same as the human traffickers in the old era. , the only difference is that here, it''s legal.


    Du Di''an has not seen the coins of this world before, only to see his titular "mother" take out a stack of thick green banknotes, about the same size as the banknotes of the old era, with a tall giant wall printed on it. Kind of like the Sylvia Wall.


    Seeing that she handed the stack of coins that had clearly been counted to the smiling Aunt Mina, Du Di''an knew why they accepted him so easily when he first came to the orphanage. The hospital was so poor and the surrounding environment was so dilapidated, yet they selflessly distributed food and accommodation to this unrelated stranger. for such a large sum of money.


    With a soft sigh in his heart, Du Di''an felt that maybe he should recognize the difference between the two worlds. To survive the fittest, either adapt to the world or let the world adapt to itself.


    At this time, after paying the adoption fee, the young woman put away the contract signed by both parties, bent over and stroked Du Di''an''s hair, and said gently, "Child, I will be your mother from now on, my name is Jula."


    Du Di''an looked at her light brown eyes and knew that this woman would be the only one he could rely on before growing up in the future. He was silent for a while and said, "Can I call you Aunt Zhu first?"


    Jula was slightly startled.


    Mina, who was sorting out the contract next to her, said softly, "Don''t be unruly. From now on, she is your mother. Treat her well in the future, but don''t lose the name of our orphanage."


    "It''s okay." Jula smiled slightly, stroked Du Di''an''s hair, and said gently: "If you want to call me Aunt Zhu first, just call me Aunt Zhu, I''ll wait until you get used to it."


    There was a hint of warmth in Du Di''s heart, and he said softly, "Thank you."


    He is really grateful because he knows that once he is adopted, his life and death are in the hands of the adopter, and he also knows from other children that in this world, even if a parent kills his own child, it also...is legal.


    Jula smiled slightly, "Let''s go back and show you your new home."


    ...


    ...


    Jula''s home is in a residential area.


    The people living here are ordinary residents with jobs. The living environment is very different from that of the slums. The smell in the air alone is much fresher.


    In the huge residential area, Jula''s living conditions are also relatively upstream. She lives on the south side of the residential area. The land price here is twice as high as that in the north, because the north is close to the slums, and the south is close to the business Area.


    Those who can live in the commercial area are either big figures with military positions or wealthy businessmen. The money they spend casually waved is an astronomical amount that some people in the residential area can''t earn in their lifetime.


    Each area is blocked by tall and huge walls. The city gates are only opened during the day and are strictly divided. There is a saying in the Sylvia giant wall: facing north, not south. The north is a slum area, and the south side of the slum area is a residential area. The meaning of this sentence is that people in residential areas can freely go to slum areas, and people in commercial areas can freely go to residential areas, but, People in slums want to go to residential areas, but it is absolutely impossible, and the same is true for residential areas.

 Darkness

    Jula took out a bunch of keys and opened the door with a click.


    Du Di''an looked at this slowly opening room, knowing that this would be where he would live for some time to come.


    "Dian, come in." Jula took out a pair of adult cotton shoes from the small cabinet by the door, and shook it in front of Du Di''an on purpose as if to make him happy, "These are uncle''s shoes, you first Dress up, and I''ll take you to buy a new pair before the curfew at night."


    Du Dian was stunned for a moment, and then he was relieved. One of the conditions for adopting a child is that he must be married, that is to say, he has a nominal father who has never been masked.


    He consciously took off the dirty thick-lined shoes on his feet. The rough shoes carved several painful red marks on his feet. When he stepped on the clean cotton shoes, he felt a burst of comfort.


    "Come on, I''ll take you to wash first," Jula said enthusiastically.


    Du Di''an thought she could take a comfortable bath, but she saw that she just soaked the towel with warm water, then wrung it dry, and wiped her face and arms for herself. This kind of bathing method is exactly the same as that of the orphanage.


    It''s just that the color of the water is much purer.


    Du Di''an doesn''t know that in this world, including nobles, use this "dry cleaning" method to bathe. People''s general cognition believes that water will weaken human body functions and reduce disease resistance, even the most Nobles who love cleanliness will only do a lot of washing once or twice a year.


    After washing, Jula let Du Di''an familiarize himself with him everywhere at home, and he took the coarse clothes that Du Di''an changed for disposal.


    Du Di''an walked around the room. As he expected, he didn''t see anything with a symbol of technology, not even a simple clockwork alarm clock. Moreover, he also saw one that he had only seen in fairy tales. The old loom, he remembered, and that fairy tale was set in what seemed to be medieval Europe, before the age of steam.


    Although a textile machine alone cannot determine anything, Du Dian thinks of everything he has seen in the past few months, and he is convinced that the civilization of this post-disaster world has not yet entered the age of steam. This discovery made some thoughts in his heart stir up...


    In the evening, the sky was getting dark, the air was a little colder, and it seemed that it was going to rain again.


    Jula was worried that Du Di''an was afraid of the dark, so she lit the oil lamp early, and the dim light swayed on Du Di''an''s face. Every time she saw it, Jula had an amazing feeling. It was so white, even whiter than her complexion.


    "It''s going to rain, isn''t uncle back yet?" Du Dian glanced out the window and said.


    Jula smiled, thinking that this is really a good boy, and said, "Uncle has been making a batch of goods these days, and he won''t be back at night. Are you hungry? I''ll do what you want to eat."


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    "I like to eat everything." Du Di''an has been a picky eater since he was a child, but he really can''t tell the name of the dish.


    "Okay, I''ll let you taste Mom''s craftsmanship, I''m sure you like it," Jula said confidently.


    ...


    ...


    In the blink of an eye, a month passed.


    Du Di''an has already met the nominal father, a tall and thin middle-aged man with an ordinary appearance, called Gray, with the same personality as Jula, gentle to others, a "tailor" by profession, and the textile machine at home is his The workbench, when the black snow season arrives, will bring the goods to the home to make, after all, there is no coal and coal stove in the factory.


    Jula''s adoption of a child was obviously discussed by them. When he first came home and saw Du Dian, his expression was the same as those of the adults in the orphanage. Any other problems, it is even more satisfied with the smile for several days.


    night.


    The common storm in the rainy season came again, and the rain was pattering.


    Du Dian, who slept in his small room, opened his eyes in vain and sat up suddenly, only to realize that it was just a nightmare, and then he felt that his whole body was soaked with cold sweat, and his clothes were sticking to the skin with sweat, which was a little uncomfortable, and he shook his clothes. , and then felt the urge to urinate, and immediately got out of bed, put on shoes, and gently opened the door, only to find that there was a dim light on under the crack of the room of Jula and his wife, who were diagonally opposite to the door.


    So late, they haven''t slept yet?


    Du Di''an suddenly jumped twice in his heart, and he didn''t know what to think, and unknowingly approached the past.


    The building materials in this world obviously did not consider the sound insulation effect, at least not in Jula''s house, and a subtle sound came from the room.


    "Are you really going to do this?" This was Jula''s voice, with a bit of hesitation.


    "I know, you like this child very much, and I like it very much. To be honest, I can''t bear it, but this time is a rare opportunity. If he can be seen by the lady of Ivy''s family, we can move into business. We''ll find better jobs there, and if you feel lonely, we''ll adopt another child, and we can afford it anyway."


    "It''s not about money, I''m worried, that if Du Di''an marries into Ivy''s house, this child will not talk much and will be bullied. They are completely two worlds. When I saw a doctor, I saw those who married into big families. The children of my life are similar to servants, and some are not as good as servants.¡±


    There was silence in the room for a while, and Gray''s voice continued to sound, "Jura, you should think like this, he was an orphan in a slum, if it weren''t for us, he was adopted by another family, and his life would not be as good as a servant. And being able to live the life of a servant at Ivy''s house is what many people dream of."


    "But¡­¡­"


    "Okay, this matter is so decided, and whether it can be achieved or not is another matter."


    The room fell silent.


    The little figure at the door also fell silent, his little hand clenched into a fist, and then slowly loosened, turned around, as if dragging his body, and returned to his room, even the previous one. It was as if he had forgotten the urge to urinate.


    Sitting on the bed, Du Dian listened to the sound of the rain outside the window, and suddenly felt a pain in his heart. Although he has always put Jules and his wife as nominal parents, the meticulous care of the Jules and his wife this month has allowed him to He was very moved, and there was a little more warmth in his heart, but he didn''t expect that the world would coldly and ruthlessly tear apart some of the soft beauty in his heart like a mockery.


    He suddenly felt lonely.


    Suddenly, I miss the father and mother who are knowledgeable and gentle and the sister who always likes to pinch her ears.


    Why, why leave me alone?!


    He clenched his fists, but his heart was very weak, but an idea suddenly emerged. Since the people who have passed away can''t come back, let the world return to the way he is familiar with!


    Boom~!


    The thunder roared and the rain poured.


    No one knew that on this rainy night, the gears of history, in the chest of this inconspicuous little figure in the dark, slowly turned and moved forward.

 A Different World

    The next day, morning.


    At the dining table, Gray sat in the upper seat, holding a neighborhood newspaper that was mailed this morning. It contained news from various places in the neighborhood, as well as recruitment information for some factories. Jula was busy with breakfast in the kitchen, bringing the prepared portions to the table, and everything was as usual.


    Du Di''an''s biological clock rang on time. After getting up, he folded the quilt and washed his face with filtered well water. He came to the restaurant and said "good morning" to Jula and his wife, and then sat on tiptoe in his chair, holding the I ate the breakfast rolls I prepared.


    At this time, Jula was also busy, and took her share to sit down opposite Du Di''an, and said with a smile: "How is it, does it taste good today?"


    "It''s a little spicy." Du Di''an took a bite, "I like spicy food."


    "That''s good." Jula smiled.


    Gray put down the newspaper at this time, glanced at Du Dian who was lying on the table and bowed his head to eat and said, "Dian, my aunt and I have chosen marriage for you, you prepare today, dress up, and come with us later. Meet people in the past."


    Due to Du Di''an''s request, both Gray and Jula temporarily called themselves "aunt and uncle".


    Du Dixin came, and after last night''s buffer, now he has calmed down, and pretended to look up and asked: "Marriage? What is a marriage?"


    Jula glanced at him and whispered to Gray: "Look, I''ll say Dean is still young, and it''s not too late for a couple of years to get married."


    "At the age of thirteen, it is the legal age for marriage." Gray looked at her, his eyes seemed to be slightly cold, and said, "We are just going to get engaged, there is nothing wrong with a few years in advance."


    Seeing that her husband had made up her mind, Jula sighed and said nothing more.


    Gray said to Du Di''an: "We will take you to see a beautiful big sister later, you have to seize the opportunity, do your best to get her approval, in this way, you will be able to eat a lot of delicious food every day in the future. , wear nice clothes and never go hungry again, you know?"


    Du Dian said in surprise: "Really? I will definitely!"


    Only then did a smile appear on Gray''s face, and he said, "Good boy, Dean is a good boy, come and eat first."


    Soon, the three-person meal was over.


    Du Dian''s eagerness to try, and such a positive appearance, made Gray relieved, and the rest just depends on whether the young lady can take a fancy to Dean.


    "Come on, don''t worry, put on new clothes first." Jula took out a new little black suit, bright red tie, and shiny shoes from the closet and asked Du Di''an to put them on. When he came out neatly dressed, Jula and Gray couldn''t help but their eyes lit up. This little noble gentleman''s costume was vividly reflected in Du Di''an. The pale skin was as white as snow, and the black eyes were like stars. generally.


    "It''s so beautiful!" Jula exclaimed sincerely.


    Gray was overjoyed and said with a smile: "Very good, let''s go!"


    "Well!" Du Di''an was also very excited.


    Jula was the last to go out, locked it with her backhand, came to the street in front of the lawn fence, and said to Gray who was holding Du Dian: "So early, there is no carriage coming here, right?"


    Gray smiled slightly and said, "I''ve already said hello, and the Ivy family said they would send someone to pick us up." Having said that, the sound of horses'' hoofs sounded in vain, and Du Di''an immediately saw a car from the corner of the street. A gorgeous carriage with wheels inlaid with gold wire galloped over, with a silver-white flag on the roof and a white flower engraved on it.


    The coachman, wearing a black high-toed hat and a black suit, parked the carriage in front of Du Di''an and the others, jumped off the carriage, his waist was straight and smiled: "The two are Gray and Jula, Miss is already waiting for you. , please get on the carriage." He covered his chest sideways and made an inviting gesture, showing noble etiquette in his manner.


    Gray''s heart jumped when he heard it, and he was a little flattered and said: "How can you bother Miss to wait for us, it''s really rude, get in the car, get in the car!" As he said, he quickly carried Du Di''an into the carriage.


    At this time, the coachman seemed to have noticed Du Di''an as well, a look of surprise flashed in his eyes, but then he resumed his polite smile.


    Da da da¡­¡­


    After a few people were seated, the coachman shook off the rope and the carriage galloped away.


    Du Di''an tilted his head and silently looked at the buildings that flew by outside the car, the pedestrians who were avoiding the road, and the surprised and awe-inspiring eyes cast on the carriage. At this time, neither Gray nor Jula spoke, nor did they tell Du Dian anything, worried that they would fall into the ears of the coachman.


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    The carriage was galloping smoothly and soon passed under the huge wall on the south side. The young guards at the city gate saw the white flower flags on the top of the carriage, and they all moved away. They stretched out their hands to cover their chests and saluted. , and continued to resume his work, and continued to check the identity of passers-by who wanted to enter the business district.


    Is this the business district?


    Du Di''an looked at the clean streets outside the carriage and the neatly dressed pedestrians on the road, and immediately felt the difference from the residential area. As for the slum area, it was the difference between heaven and hell, which was not exaggerated at all.


    Soon, the carriage was parked in front of a delicate and elegant building at the end of the street. Du Di''an saw a cardboard piano sign hanging on the building. The painting was extremely realistic. He couldn''t help but be surprised. A piano remains.


    The carriage stopped at the main entrance. At this moment, a young man in a black suit walked quickly at the door, looked at Gray and Jula who got off the carriage, and said with a smile, "Miss, please come with me." Lead the way.


    Gray looked at this gorgeous and exquisite building that was absolutely impossible to see in the residential area. He was a little nervous in his heart, his back was a little bit straight, and he took Du Di''an''s hand and walked in front.


    Entering the hall, the bright light of the oil lamp like an agate gem shone on the faces of the Grays. Jula''s performance was a little better. She had been invited to the business district several times for medical treatment, and she was a little calm. It was the first time that Gray came to such a place. Du Dian held his hand through him and felt the man''s whole body trembling slightly, and he couldn''t help shaking his head in his heart.


    The sound of gurgling music drifted like flowing water. Du Di''an looked at the place and saw that the hall was very spacious. There were many people sitting here eating snacks, listening to music, and chatting softly. The fine thread and cotton cloth used in residential areas are even better, some are silk, some are fleece sweaters, the colors are extremely bright, and the contrast with the common primary color of thin thread clothes in residential areas is very clear.


    The young man in the black suit made a slight gesture and walked towards a separate seat inside.


    Du Di''an looked and saw two figures sitting here, one was a middle-aged beautiful woman, about 30 years old, wearing a delicately tailored skirt, with a beautiful face and a very gentle look. Next to her sat an eleven or twelve-year-old girl with a fair complexion, brown hair, and a melon-seeded face. Although she had not yet matured, she was definitely a beautiful embryo.


    The little girl also noticed the Gray family who was approaching, her eyes swept past the two adults, and fell on Du Di''an, with a hint of surprise in her eyes.


    At this time, the middle-aged beautiful woman stood up and smiled at Zhu La: "Doctor Zhu, my husband''s illness was thanks to you last time. Today, he has business to deal with, so I can''t come here. I hope you forgive me."


    Grayling said: "Where Mr. Ai is busy with business, we are abrupt."


    The middle-aged beautiful woman smiled and said, "Sit down first."


    "Yes, yes." Gray immediately pulled out the chair and sat down, perhaps because he was too nervous, the foot of the chair slammed on the ground, and a few people who were talking softly in other nearby seats immediately glanced sideways, waiting to see When the middle-aged beautiful woman wore a white medal on the gauze cap, her expression changed and she looked away.


    After Gray and Jula sat down, the middle-aged beautiful woman''s eyes fell on Du Dian, who was sitting on tiptoe in the chair, and a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes, then she was relieved and smiled at Gray: "This is what you adopted. Baby, it''s so clean."


    When Gray heard her praise for Du Dian, he was overjoyed and said hurriedly: "Where, unlike your young lady, she is so beautiful at such a young age, and she is very smart at first glance and has inherited your beauty."


    The middle-aged beautiful woman smiled slightly and suddenly said, "About the marriage..."


    Gray''s body tightened, and Jula''s expression became a little nervous.


    "If Aniya has no opinion, then it''s settled." The middle-aged beautiful woman was unexpectedly cheerful.


    Gray and Jula glanced at each other, both seeing each other''s surprise.


    "Lord Mother." At this moment, the little girl suddenly said, "I want to go out with him."


    The beautiful middle-aged woman seemed to have expected her words long ago, her smile remained unchanged, and she looked at Gray and Jula.


    Gray reacted and said, "It should be, Dean, you should go shopping with Miss Anya, remember to take care of Miss Anya!" After saying that, he patted Du Di''an on the shoulder and encouraged him.


    At this time, Aniya had already gotten down from her seat, turned around, and walked outside first.


    Du Di''an looked at the smiles in the eyes of Gray and Jula, but he was very calm. After saying hello to the middle-aged beautiful woman on the opposite side, he turned around and followed behind Aniya, and left the hall together.


    "This child is quite sensible." The middle-aged beautiful woman looked at Du Di''an''s back and said with a smile.


    "It''s okay..." Gray said humbly.


    ...


    ...


    On the street outside, Aniya looked at the young man in the black suit who followed, and waved her hand: "You don''t need to follow, I''ll just walk around."


    "Yes, miss." The young man in the black suit covered his chest and agreed.


    After he left, Aniya continued to walk in front without looking back or talking to Du Di''an, as if she was walking alone. Du Di''an has long learned to endure loneliness, quietly following her, watching the buildings on both sides of the street by the way, from these customs, one can infer the approximate living standard and technology level of the world.


    After walking for a while.


    Aniya suddenly stopped, Du Dian looked around and was fascinated, almost bumped into her back, only smelled the faint fragrance of flowers, floating from her clothes, and quickly distanced.


    At this time, Aniya turned around, her age advantage made her a little taller than half of Du Di''an''s head, and her beautiful snow-white melon seed face, without the slightest expression, looked down at Du Di''an quietly.


    Du Di''an faintly felt a possibility and looked up at her quietly.


    This calm made Aniya''s eyes flash with surprise, but she quickly recovered her indifference and said, "Have you heard the opera "Violet"?"


    Du Di''an was stunned for a moment. She didn''t expect that she would suddenly say this irrelevant sentence, and subconsciously she would answer no, but Aniya didn''t give him a chance to speak, and continued: "Have you heard Mr. Fit''s music? ?"


    No. Du Dian just wanted to say.


    "Do you know how to dance ballroom dancing?" Aniya continued in an indifferent tone, without giving him a chance to answer.


    When Du Dian heard this, he already understood that this was not a polite inquiry, but questioning, and it was a question with undisguised contempt. He looked at her silently and quietly.


    "Do you know how to equestrian?"


    "Do you know swordsmanship?"


    "Do you have ideas and pursuits?"


    Aniya asked six questions in a row, then looked at Du Dian calmly, and said, "If you are a smart child, you should already understand that you and I are not from the same world."


    Du Di''an looked at her beautiful face. He didn''t expect that such sharp and even ruthless words would come out of the mouth of this child who was only three or four years older than him, and it was a matter of course.

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    "We are together, we have no common language." Aniya looked indifferently at Du Di''an''s face, and continued: "If it wasn''t for your mother who helped my father heal, we would not have any communication at all, but we also Don''t try to think that with this kind of kindness, you can climb up to our family, and Aniya will never find an incompetent husband and make me lose face."


    "Although you try your best to imitate elegance and self-cultivation, pretending to be a gentleman and aristocrat, in front of the real aristocrats, you can see the root bad habits in your body at a glance! Common people are common people. The blood of aristocrats, no matter how much you study the day after tomorrow, can''t hide your poverty and rudeness."


    Aniya looked at Du Di''an coldly and said, "Although you look very clean, you are not the same as those dirty and smelly residential workers, but there is nothing unusual. They are everywhere here, and they don''t know where they are trying their best. When I found you, I thought I would take a fancy to you and let you marry into our Ivy house, and they will be able to live in the business district from now on, this is really a joke!"


    "My father''s kindness to him is polite, but they are not self-respecting. This is the gap between commoners and nobles. I don''t know how important it is!"


    Du Di''an just looked at her quietly, waiting for her to finish.


    Aniya said so much in one breath, and when she saw the calm expression on Du Di''an''s face, she couldn''t help frowning, but she quickly turned cold again and said, "You may not understand what I said, but It doesn''t matter, you just need to know that you are not worthy of me, and I will not let you be my husband. If you want to marry into our Ivy family, you and your adoptive parents, it is better to die. Otherwise, I will make it impossible for you to live in the residential area."


    Du Di looked at her quietly and said, "Have you finished?"


    Aniya sneered and said, "When you''re done, just say what you want to say."


    Du Dian smiled, looked directly into her eyes, and said softly, "First of all, I have to say thank you to you."


    Aniya was startled, a little stunned.


    Du Di''an ignored her reaction and continued: "First, thank you for rejecting me so that I can avoid the humiliation of entering a family. My father said that this is the basic bottom line of being a man. Thank you for helping me keep it." When I said to father, I naturally meant my stern, learned, and gentle father.


    Anja was puzzled, didn''t your father want to put you in our house with a humble look on his face?


    "Second, thank you." Du Di''an said: "Thank you for letting me know that even a little girl as big as you can''t be ignored."


    Aniya raised her eyebrows, she was precocious since she was a child, and she planned her future when she was **, which was completely different from the children of the same age who were thinking about playing every day. I heard such an old-fashioned tone as if I had faced those playmates of the same age.


    When she was about to speak, Du Dian had already turned around and was about to leave. Before leaving, she thought of something, paused, and didn''t look back, as if to tell herself, "Maybe, I don''t know the horsemanship and swordsmanship you said, I can''t learn the cultivation and politeness of your nobles, but I have ideas and pursuits!" The voice fell, and the man left without any hesitation.


    It wasn''t until his figure disappeared from Aniya''s sight that Aniya reacted. She didn''t expect that this little commoner would dare to leave first without waiting for her. A fit of anger surged in her heart. She rarely gets angry, but at the moment she feels raging anger burning, not so much anger, but more like suffocation, she gritted her teeth, stomped her heels, kept her ladylike attitude, and moved as fast as possible. keep up.


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    When Du Di''an returned to the corner of the concert hall, he had heard Aniya walking quickly from behind. She was still walking as gracefully as a noble lady. He paused and did not look back, waiting for Aniya to arrive. When he was behind him, he opened his mouth and said, "When the adults ask, you can say that you already have other favorites."


    Aniya just wanted to question him, when she heard this, she couldn''t help but said sullenly: "Why do you want me to say that I''m looking for you, just to ask you to go back and tell your adoptive parents that I despise you and let them die? Heart."


    Du Di''an said indifferently: "If I guessed correctly, your father should agree to this marriage, but you don''t agree, that is to say, as long as I agree, this matter can be done, am I right?"


    Aniya''s menacing face suddenly turned white. Du Di''an was right. Her father did agree to the marriage. When she came out with her mother today, she deliberately put pressure on the Gray couple to break their minds.


    "You, how do you know?"


    "You told me." Du Di''an said lightly: "If you have the right to choose, you can refuse this marriage with a simple sentence. There is no need to talk to me so much, or even threaten me. Moreover, Looking at your mother seems to be a little too refreshing, so there must be something tricky here, you can''t directly reject my adoptive parents, so you want to start with me."


    Aniya was a little shocked. Du Di''an said almost every word, just like hearing her and her mother''s discussion in advance. For a time, she suddenly felt that she could not see through this little boy, the calmness and calmness of the other party. She didn''t even have a teenage child, but she didn''t regret her choice, she was silent for a while, and then said, "If it''s up to me, I''m worried that your adoptive parents will find my father."


    Du Di''an shook his head slightly, "No, as long as you refuse, this matter will be over. It''s very simple, but it''s more complicated than you think."


    "How do you know you won''t?" Aniya frowned, a little disliked by Du Di''an''s confident tone.


    Knowing that she was not convinced, Du Di''an could only explain patiently: "You have overestimated their courage and underestimated their self-esteem. In this matter, they originally had a try-and-see attitude and didn''t expect too much."


    Aniya frowned, pondered for a moment, and said, "I''ll just say I don''t like you later. Why do I say that I have other crushes, I don''t."


    Du Dian rolled his eyes, "Aren''t you an aristocrat, don''t you understand that you should be more polite? Just say that directly, where will they put their faces?"


    Aniya glanced at him, and suddenly snorted: "Are you afraid that if I say this, they will think that you have behaved badly in front of me, so they will take anger at you?"


    Du Di''an didn''t feel ashamed when he saw that he was seen through, and said lightly: "Anyway, I have taught you what you want to say, you can do it yourself, but the consequences are at your own risk!" After speaking, he stepped out of the corner and walked towards the concert hall.


    "You..." Aniya looked at his back, suffocated with anger, and finally stomped her feet and followed.


    "Miss, you''re back." The young man in the black suit was relieved when he saw Du Di''an and Aniya appear, with a smile on his face.


    Aniya deserves to be from a noble family. In just a few short steps, the anger on her face has completely calmed down. With a slight hum, she walked ahead and entered the hall.


    ...


    ...


    The carriage with the white flower flag galloped from the commercial area into the residential area and stopped before No. 108 Linking Street. The Du Di''an family of three got off the carriage, the driver shook his whip, and the carriage galloped away.


    Jula glanced at her husband''s gloomy face and led Du Di''an to open the door first.


    "Whatever has a crush is just an excuse!"


    "It''s clear that they despise our status and are nobles. I can see it clearly. They are a group of hypocritical and arrogant guys!"


    At home, Gray vented angrily.


    Jula hurriedly said, "Shh, be quiet, don''t let others hear you."


    Gray suffocated and said nothing more bitterly. It is a big sin to talk about nobles in private.


    Jula said to Du Dian on the side: "Dian, go back to your room to rest first and come out to eat later, you are tired today."


    Gray glanced at Du Di''an, his lips moved slightly, but he still didn''t say anything, but he was stunned for a while. He knew Du Di''an was a good boy and would never do something rude when he got along this month. Can blame the other party''s vision is too high.


    Du Di''an hummed, nodded, and went back to the room.


    ...


    Half a month later, the four-month disaster and rainy season finally came to an end.


    Today, the sun is shining.


    Gray looked at Du Dian, who woke up early, as usual, smiled, and said, "Dian, we will enter the "Black Dead Season" soon, and the various colleges will also start. Have you decided which college you want to study at? "

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    Du Di''an nodded slightly. The Gray couple told him about this a few days ago, and they all expressed their hope that he could inherit Gray''s sewing skills and become an excellent tailor, but Du Di''an had a goal in mind and refused directly.


    The Grays were not angry. It was a good thing for the children to have their own opinions. They were not a serf family, and they were worried that their children would easily get into trouble if they were too opinionated.


    "Unfortunately, it is too difficult to get started as a doctor. If you follow me since you were a child, there is still hope for you to learn." Jula pinched the vegetable roll and felt a little regretful. Du Di''an is a smart child, but it is a pity that it is too late to start. When he becomes a doctor in charge, It''s past the age at which doctors'' senses are at their sharpest.


    "Tell me, what do you want to learn?" Gray smiled.


    Du Dian looked up at them and said, "Law."


    "Law?" The Grays were stunned, and Julian said, "Dean, do you know what kind of profession this is?"


    "I know, it''s one of the three major civilian occupations, just like a doctor." When Du Dian got the occupation list given by Gray, he locked this occupation as soon as possible. For him, he wanted the fastest understanding. The difference between this world and the modern world, this profession is the most suitable.


    Gray said solemnly: "You have to think clearly, the law school is the most difficult, even more, difficult than being a doctor, it requires very flexible thinking and logical ability, although you are a smart and good boy, you did not receive any punishment in the orphanage. Basic learning, it is very difficult to graduate from the Law Academy and become a qualified priest!"


    Du Dian looked directly at him and insisted: "I just want to learn this."


    Gray frowned slightly. This was the first time that Du Dian was so persistent in front of them, so he didn''t know how to refuse. Since the last time he was rejected by Ivy''s family, he has lightened up some thoughts and regarded Du Dian as his true self. children, and therefore do not want to easily hurt their feelings.


    Seeing that Du Dian was so serious, Jula pulled Lagre''s sleeve and said, "Since the child wants to learn, let him learn. Even if he can''t enter the "Tribunal" in the end, it''s not bad to be an ordinary lawyer, at least he is familiar with the law. Don''t know the law and break the law, just be safe. "


    Du Dian glanced at her and said silently in his heart, I study the law, not to obey, but to break it!


    Gray sighed and said, "Okay, just listen to him."


    Du Di''an breathed a sigh of relief, took a deep look at them, and said, "Thank you!"


    Hearing Du Di''an''s words, Gray smiled again and said, "Since you have chosen, you must persevere. If you don''t want to learn in the end, come back and learn sewing with me. Being a textile worker, you can also support yourself."


    Du Dian nodded slightly.


    ...


    ...


    When the black and dead season comes, the temperature also warms up a lot.


    On the third day before school starts, there is a special holiday called "Day of Prayer".


    Every family went to the Via Cathedral in the center of the residential area in groups, praying to God the Father, letting them pass this black death season safely so that the plague and disease will not come to them.


    This is a grand ceremony.


    The Grays took Du Dian to pray, and Du Dian also saw the place of faith in this world for the first time, the Holy See of Light. However, this is only a branch of the Holy See of Light built in a residential area. A huge four-winged angel sculpture is built in the center of the square. It seems to embrace all the believers in both hands, full of kindness and peace.


    After the day of prayer, three days later, the various colleges began to recruit students.


    Du Di''an was led by the Gray couple to the law school about ten kilometers away from his home. He saw the bustling parents waiting here with their children. These parents and children were dressed simply, with clean skin, and the others were yellow-faced and skinny, or Ordinary workers with rough skin are completely different. After all, the tuition fees of law school are also notoriously expensive, and ordinary working families with the little background cannot afford them at all.


    "I heard that if you want to enter the Law Academy, you still need to pass the assessment."


    "I''ve known it for a long time, otherwise you thought it was the same as the sewing school and the geology school?"


    "I don''t know, what aspect is being assessed here."


    Some parents whispered.


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    Grech said: "Does the Law School still need to be assessed?"


    "Of course, it''s the same as our medical school." Jula blinked and bowed her head to Du Di''an: "You have to work hard, I remember that some simple things will be tested. Our medical school tests memory. It should be about the same here."


    Gray came to a realization and smiled at Du Dian: "Then it depends on your own performance. If you don''t pass, let''s go to the sewing school to sign up."


    Du Dian rolled his eyes in his heart, thinking that you can be happy, if it is really a memory test, I can torture the examiner to death in minutes. His IQ is 142. In the old days, this could already reach the passing line of "genius" IQ. Those with IQs from 120 to 140 belonged to smart people, and most of them were from 90 to 110. When it reaches 168, it is truly unforgettable. At the age of twelve, he was admitted to Harvard University.


    Their brothers and sisters have such high IQs, and they all inherited the genes of their parents. Both of them are scientists who have won international awards. If it weren''t for a disaster, they would have won an international award with the invention of the "refrigerator".


    At this time, the parents in front went in one after another, and soon it was Du Di''an''s turn.


    "Parents stop, the children come over for the assessment." A middle-aged man who looked like an academic staff stopped the Grays.


    "Dian, come on!" Jula encouraged Du Di''an, but Du Di''an felt that the smile in her eyes was too happy.


    Entering this spacious room, they saw two middle-aged examiners sitting inside, a man and a woman, wearing black robes with intricate patterns of gold silk embroidery, simple and gorgeous, they saw Du Di''an and smiled: "Child, come over."


    Du Dian stepped forward.


    "A question for you, you have a frying pan, you can only fry two fish at a time, it takes one minute to fry one side, how many minutes will it take to fry three fish at the fastest?" the middle-aged woman on the left smiled.


    "Three minutes." Du Dian didn''t want to answer.


    The two examiners were a little surprised. This question is not difficult, but even some smart children need to think a little to answer it, but Du Dian seems to have no consideration, and just said the answer, and it is correct!


    "You passed, child, you are very smart." The middle-aged man on the right smiled and said, "Take this and go to the side for a physical examination. If there is no problem with the physical examination, you can officially come to the Law Academy. "Speaking, handing Du Dian a small note with a few words written on it.


    And a checkup? Du Di''an frowned slightly, nodded, turned, and left the room.


    "so hard!"


    "I answered for four minutes, and actually said I was wrong. Isn''t it four minutes? If you want to fry both sides, it must take four minutes!"


    "There is a problem with this question. Why fry fish? I don''t like to eat fish, and what does frying fish have to do with the law!"


    "That''s right, my father is a chef. It takes only one minute to fry three fish. They still don''t believe it, hum!"


    As soon as Du Dian came out, he heard a few children walking out of the next assessment rooms, complaining dissatisfiedly about the exam questions. The corner of his mouth twitched slightly, pretending he didn''t hear it and turned back to the waiting Gray couple.


    "How is it?" Gray said with a wide-eyed smile. He also heard the words of those children. Although he didn''t know what the specific exam questions were, he also knew that it was not so easy to pass.


    Du Di''an glanced at him lightly and said, "Passed, I will go for a medical examination next."


    Gray''s smile was stagnant and a little discouraged, but when he thought that Du Di''an was smarter than other children, he was beaming again.


    "The physical examination is to detect the radiation value in your body. Judging from Dean''s skin color, the radiation value is definitely not high. There is no problem with passing it." Jula seemed to know something and smiled.


    Du Di was relieved. When the global nuclear bomb exploded, the world was full of nuclear radiation, and the silver-gray clouds in the sky also gathered a lot of nuclear radiation dust, so there would be a disaster rainy season, which is a rainy season, and Rain is extremely dangerous and even deadly to this world. Getting wet can lead to illness or even death.


    However, he has only lived here for a few months since he came out of the freezer, and the radiation value in his body should not be too high.


    It''s just that he was curious, what do these people use to detect radiation values?


    Is it an instrument? But here has not even entered the era of steam, how is it possible to know "electricity"?


    At this time, Jula took him to a room next to the room with the word "Physical Examination" written. There was no one in line. After all, there were not many people who could pass the first examination. There was a middle-aged woman sitting inside. With a small note in Du Dian''s hand, he smiled and said, "Come here."


    Du Di''an came forward and looked at the place, but did not see any instruments, but a row of glass tubes like a thermometer.


    The middle-aged woman asked for a note from him, glanced at it, and when she saw it was true, she picked up a clean glass tube with a fine scale on it, and pointed the sharp end of it at the glass tube. Du Dian''s little hand smiled and said, "Child, don''t be afraid, it won''t hurt."


    Du Di''an didn''t expect the thing that detects the radiation value is such a small glass tube.


    With a bang, the sharp end of the glass tube pierced Du Di''an''s finger, and soon, the bright red blood penetrated into the glass tube. At this time, Du Di''an noticed that there was a hair-like red line in the scale of the glass tube, which rose slightly. Stopped at the first grid at the bottom of the scale.


    The middle-aged woman looked at it and confirmed that she had no dizziness, and couldn''t help looking at Du Di''an in astonishment, only to notice that Du Di''an''s complexion was much fairer than other children, even girls of the same age were not as white as him.


    There was a hint of realization in her eyes, and she sighed to the Gray couple next to her: "This is the first time I have seen such a low radiation value. It is incredible. It is estimated that such a healthy body can only appear in a commercial area. "


    Jula obviously knew this radiometer as well, and she was also shocked, and then she was relieved and said to her bewildered husband: "This is a radiometer, which is specially designed to measure the radiation value of the human body. Dean''s radiation value... is quite low, even It is lower than us, and it is estimated to be comparable to those aristocratic children."


    Gray knew the importance of the human body''s radiation value, but he didn''t care. It was just that Jula''s words "comparable to noble children" made him a little happy, and caressed Du Di''an''s hair lovingly.


    Du Dian glanced at the small red line on the radiometer, and suddenly felt that the line was twisting slightly as if... it was a living creature!


    ...


    ...


    On the night of Du Di''an''s registration, in a castle in the business district.


    In a room so luxurious as to be inlaid with diamonds, a shadow-like shadow silently appeared in the room, looking at the stalwart figure reading the materials on the desk in front of him, and respectfully said: "Sir, this is submitted in the residential area today. There are twenty-seven who passed the test."

 Silvia Wall

    The stalwart figure on the desk didn''t look up, just hummed softly. The half-kneeling black shadow on the ground saw the message and respectfully clenched his fists to cover his chest, and disappeared as silently as the Tathagata, leaving only a snow-white letter on the desk.


    After finishing the work in his hand, the stalwart figure''s eyes fell on the snow-white letter paper, his thick blade-like eyebrows were slightly raised, he took it apart and glanced briefly, and he really reached the passing line. His eyes condensed and fell on the detection value at the bottom corner.


    "0.8?" The stalwart figure stared at the number, watched it for a while, put away the letter, got up, put on the coat on the coat rack at the door, and pushed open the door.


    In the hall, the slightly fat middle-aged butler looked at the master and said in surprise, "Master, it''s so late, are you going out?"


    "Well." The stalwart figure instructed: "Prepare the car."


    ...


    ...


    "Three hundred years ago, natural disasters came to the world. Our ancestors fought hard, relying on infinite wisdom and strength to survive in adversity, and built this huge Sylvia wall to isolate the disaster from the wall. The descendants of the Sanctuary! The giant wall of Sylvia is sacred and great, and it must not be desecrated, you know?" A white-bearded old man on the podium said solemnly.


    Don''t look at his beard and snow-white, in fact, he is only sixty years old, but here, this is already long life.


    Du Dian listened carefully. Three days after he signed up, the school officially started. This was his first class today. The old man did not explain the knowledge of the law as soon as he came up but briefly introduced some well-known things as if the purpose was to come to get acquainted with the children and consolidate the beliefs in the children''s hearts. About the story of Sylvia''s giant wall, as long as it is not an orphan, almost every child has heard his parents say it countless times since he was a child.


    The other children were bored, but because they saw the white-bearded old man for the first time, they were a little afraid of life, so they didn''t dare to make trouble.


    Du Di''an listened with relish. These were exactly what he wanted to know most at the moment. Seeing that the old man himself seemed to be boring and did not intend to explain in depth, he couldn''t help raising his hand and asked, "Teacher, what are you talking about natural disasters?"


    The white-bearded old man and the other children were stunned. They didn''t expect Du Di''an to be so bold and dare to ask questions. Second, they didn''t expect that such a well-known thing would still be unknown to people.


    Seeing Du Di''an''s serious and hopeful face, the old man couldn''t bear to attack the child''s enthusiasm, but he just murmured in his heart. Didn''t the child''s parents tell him? He replied with a smile: "There are many natural disasters, volcanic eruptions, floods, earthquakes, and so on."


    Du Dian was stunned and said reluctantly, "Is that all?"


    The old man was speechless and said: "These disasters are already terrible, haven''t you heard your parents say that a volcanic eruption alone can kill countless people, you see the dark clouds in the sky, this is caused by the volcanic eruption. "


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    Du Dian frowned slightly and said nothing, but sighed in his heart because he knew that the disaster three hundred years ago was not a simple natural disaster at all. Although all the disasters the old man said happened, it was caused by the explosion of a nuclear bomb. Yes, the reason why he asked knowingly was to see what information those who survived left behind. Obviously, in the hands of these descendants, they did not know the real cause and inside story of the disaster.


    Perhaps, the inside story is too terrifying, so it is possible that it was blocked by the ruler above.


    "Teacher, my mother said that it is very dangerous outside the giant wall. If you go out, you will die. Is this true?" A little fat man asked Du Dian''s question, and he also raised his hand boldly and asked.


    The old man looked solemn and said seriously: "Yes, there are devils and plagues living outside the giant wall. Once we go out, we will never come back. We can sit here and study, and we can eat rice and vegetables, all of which belong to the giant wall. Credit, so you must respect the giant wall and the wall builders, this is a profession as great as a doctor and our obedience!"


    Everyone knows that "disciplinarians" refer to those who study the law. Children like Du Di''an who have just learned the law are called apprentice disciplines. If they graduate and pass the examination of the court, they can become A priest, which is a very sacred existence, as noble as a noble, not only can freely enter and exit the commercial area and residential area, but also enter the inner wall area!


    "The devil and the plague..." All the children turned pale with fright, and no matter how young they were, they knew how terrifying these two were.


    Du Di''an has a hint of curiosity at the bottom. He naturally doesn''t believe in devils. Nuclear bombs baptized the world, and 99% of all creatures have been wiped out. This is just a fabricated word to intimidate children. Of course, the target of intimidation may not only be children, but also adults.


    This made him wonder what the world outside the giant wall already looked like. Is it still full of the remnants of the nuclear bomb explosion? Or has it become a virgin forest because no one has pioneered it?


    "It''s time, let''s end the get out of class." The white-bearded old man looked at the hourglass and said.


    The other children immediately cheered.


    At this moment, two young men in black leather armor suddenly appeared at the door, walking into the classroom as if no one else was there. Just as the white-bearded old man was about to speak, he suddenly noticed the black eagle-headed medals on their shoulders, his face suddenly filled with a smile, and he stepped forward, "The two adults came here, did you take those children away?"


    Du Dian''s ears perked up, a little vigilant and puzzled.


    One of the slender young men nodded slightly, looked indifferent, and said meticulously: "Now I am naming the person I mentioned, stand up, do you understand?" He swept the audience coldly, not at all because the object was a child. soft.


    All the children were immediately stunned and nervous. The white-bearded old man hurriedly reassured: "Don''t be nervous, these two adults are guards, and those who are mentioned by their names will have the hope of joining public office. This is a happy event."


    public office? Du Di''an heard Jula talk about it. In short, it is equivalent to the civil servants of the old era. They don''t have to worry about their livelihood in their whole life. It is the dream career of many civilians.


    However, Du Di''an noticed the medals on the shoulders of the two men. When he entered the residential area from the slum, he did not see such medals on the guards, and the standard leather armor was also different. Moreover, there was no reason for a guard in the area. To have a faculty member so in awe.


    "Locke!" The young man in black armor sighed.


    A thin child on the table in front of Du Di''an shuddered and said weakly: "In..."


    "Stand up!" the young man in black armor shouted.


    The skinny boy jumped up in fright.


    "Marta!"


    "Yes!" A girl quickly stood up.


    "Lamar!"


    "Carly!"


    One by one the children were named and stood up, and the young man shouted: "Du Di''an!"


    Du Dian narrowed his eyes and stood up slowly.


    The children who were named, plus him, made a total of eight.

 "Scavengers" and "Hunters"

    "You eight, come with us." The slender young man looked at Du Dian a little, then said indifferently, turned, and left the classroom with his companions.


    The white-bearded old man saw Du Dian and the other eight people doing nothing, and quickly said: "Don''t go quickly, this is your luck, no one else wants it." Hearing his words, several children looked at each other and stood out. A tall boy took the lead in following up with courage, and the rest of the talents followed one after another.


    Du Dian walked at the end, quietly observing the selected children and the children who were not selected, trying to find out the reason for his selection through comparison, but soon found that there seemed to be no common ground, at least from the skin color. , appearance and other external appearances can not see the obvious distinctions.


    Nothing on the outside, it''s on the inside.


    He suddenly thought of the physical examination before entering school, and his eyes were slightly condensed. It seemed that this was the most suspicious one!


    When he was thinking about it, he had followed the other children to the huge playground outside the Law School. As soon as he came here, Du Dian saw a black carriage parked at the entrance of the academy, with iron bars and huge rivets embedded in the wheels of the carriage, which were extraordinarily strong at first glance. The horse pulling the cart was even more amazing. It was nearly three meters tall and wore a steel helmet as if a beast was standing there.


    Not only Du Dian was surprised, but other children were even more stunned.


    "Come here, get in the car." The slender young man cherished his words like gold.


    All the children hesitated for a while, and the taller child who was at the front seemed to consciously shoulder the status of the leader, and said boldly: "Please, may I ask, where are we going?"


    The skinny young man stared at him coldly and said, "Get in the car if you want to!"


    Sen Leng''s sharp eyes made this tall boy agitated, his hair stood on end, and his face was pale, he didn''t dare to ask any more questions, he carefully avoided the giant horse and climbed up the steps of the carriage.


    Seeing this, the other children were also silent and followed behind honestly.


    The carriage is extremely spacious, more than enough for eight children. Du Di''an was sitting in the corner, next to two nervous children. He quietly looked at the young man in black armor who jumped into the driver''s seat in front of him. He suddenly felt that he had to do something to save his life as soon as possible. The world is more dangerous than he imagined. Although there are laws, it is clear that some beings can ignore the laws!


    As for human rights.


    In the feudal society where serfs and nobles existed, human rights never included "equality" and "freedom".


    The carriage galloped away from the School of Law. The speed was extremely fast. The buildings on both sides of the road retreated rapidly. It didn''t take long for Du Di''an to see a high wall with a large character carved on the wall. At home, Du Di''an learned a lot of words from Jula. He knew this word, it was a poor "poor"!


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    Du Di''an recognized that this was the high wall leading from the residential area to the commercial area. Could this carriage take them to the commercial area?


    The other children obviously recognized this, and when they thought of the words of the white-bearded old man, the nervousness in their hearts was suddenly replaced by surprise, and their faces were full of excited expressions.


    Even a child yearns to enter the business district where the nobles and the rich live and witness the scenery inside.


    Du Di''an was not surprised. Being able to take people away directly from the Law Academy shows that the energy behind these people is great, but I don''t know what their purpose is, whether it is good or bad?


    Soon, the carriage galloped past the concert hall building where Du Di''an had come before. Seeing this building, Du Di''an couldn''t help but think of the little girl who asked the question sharply, and suddenly felt a little funny. Although he thought that sooner or later he would step into the commercial area of ??this forbidden area for civilians, he didn''t expect to come back in just one month.


    It didn''t take long for the black carriage to come to an ancient castle. The thin young man in front jumped down, opened the car door, and shouted to everyone, "Get off."


    All the children were honest and got off the bus obediently.


    Du Di''an was still the last one, but when he was about to get off the car, the thin young man suddenly said, "You don''t have to get off." After that, he returned to the driver''s position in front, shook off the whip, and drove the carriage away.


    Only the seven children who got off the bus were left in place, with a blank expressions on their faces.


    Du Di''an''s face changed slightly, his heart was slightly lifted, he opened the back curtain and looked, only to see the figures of the seven children gradually disappearing, until before disappearing, suddenly a middle-aged man in a black suit walked out of the castle, came to those children.


    The carriage passed a corner, and the line of sight was blocked, Du Dian withdrew his gaze, and sat alone in the empty carriage, his mind turned quickly.


    run away?


    Resist?


    Obviously, with the opponent''s power, he can only be slaughtered.


    Soon, the carriage stopped in front of a manor, which was an extremely vast manor with white lacquered wood guardrails on the outside, and the green grass inside was trimmed extremely smoothly. At this moment, several gardeners were sprinkling water on the lawn.


    The car door was opened, and the thin young man looked at Du Dian in the car, with a smile on his indifferent face, and said, "Little guy, it''s quite calm."


    When Du Dian saw his smile, he froze for a moment, and the tension in his heart slowly relaxed, and asked directly: "Is it because of the radiation value?"


    The slender young man seemed to be a different person, with a smile on his face, and said, "They are quite clever, yes, they are all barely passing the test. Even if they pass the training, they can only be a "scavenger", and you, there is hope to join our "hunter". "


    "Scavenger? Hunter?" When Du Di''an heard these two terms, he moved in his heart, and when he saw that he seemed to become more talkative, he asked, "What is a scavenger?"


    "Let''s go down first." The slender young man stretched out his hand to take Du Dian off the carriage, led him towards the manor, and said as he walked: "The scavenger is responsible for developing a safe area outside the giant wall and looking for available resources. "


    "Outside the giant wall?" Du Dian''s surprise was no small matter, he actually worked outside the giant wall? The white-bearded old man obviously knew this. He said before that there were devils and plagues outside the giant wall, and he must not go out. As a result, he handed them out in a blink of an eye, and he said that he was lucky... holding grass!


    Although he doesn''t believe in any devil, there is no doubt that the outside of the giant wall is extremely dangerous. At least the radiation in the air is much higher than that in the giant wall. Wait, radiation? Du Di''an suddenly became enlightened and understood. It is no wonder that the radiation value is used to distinguish scavengers and hunters. Most of them are because the environment outside the giant wall is extremely harsh and the radiation is extremely high. Therefore, people with excessive radiation in their bodies go to the giant wall. Outside the wall, it is easy to reach saturation, so only people with low radiation values ??can go there.


    Thinking of this, he couldn''t help but take a deep breath, co-authoring this so-called physical examination is the secret assessment that the above people implanted among the civilians?

 "Bright Physique"

    "What about the hunter?" Du Di''an couldn''t help asking: "Is it going to the dangerous area outside the giant wall? Is there any danger outside the giant wall?" Speaking of this, there were terrifying figures in his mind, and his face changed. It got pale, but fortunately, his complexion was fair, so it wasn''t too conspicuous.


    "You''re smart." The thin young man smiled and said, "Outside the giant wall..."


    "Fino!" Another young man frowned and said, "I haven''t confirmed his identity yet, don''t say too much."


    The slender young man named "Fino" was taken aback for a moment, then shrugged: "It doesn''t matter, his radiation value is 0.8 scale, no more than ''one'', basically a proper "bright physique". "


    "Don''t come to a conclusion before testing!" Another young man frowned.


    Fino thought for a while, then lowered his head and said to Du Di''an: "I can only tell you after you pass the test, but then, someone will explain this to you."


    When Du Dian heard their conversation, he was slightly stunned, "Bright physique"? what is this? "


    "You''ll find out later." Fino smiled mysteriously.


    At this time, the three entered the manor, and several gardeners who sprinkled water saw the two of Fino and respectfully nodded and saluted. All the way along the white stone path paved in the middle of the lawn, the three came to the front of the castle, the giant gate more than ten meters high slowly opened, Fino led Du Di''an in, came to one of the steeple towers, and followed the winding steps, came to a dark top-floor room.


    I saw a large number of servants along the way. When these people saw Fino and the two, they respectfully shouted "sir".


    Du Di''an looked at this dark room. There were no windows. The only small window for ventilation was also covered by black curtains. Perhaps it was because of the lack of sunlight for a long time. The air in the room was colder than the temperature in the early days of the disaster and rainy season.


    In the center of the room, there was an isolated metal table covered with a black cloth. Fino stepped forward and lifted it up, revealing a smooth crystal ball. White cold air rose from under the crystal ball, which was actually a pile of ice cubes.


    "Come on, little guy." Fino took out a sharp knife from the inside of the black leather armor, looked back at Du Di''an, and said, "Come here."


    Du Di''an saw that he still had a smile on his face and had no killing intent, so he slowly stepped forward and got closer. Suddenly, he saw a very pure white bug in the almost transparent crystal ball. If you don''t look carefully, almost invisible.


    "This is a ''bright bug'' that likes to survive in cold environments. "Fino smiled and said: "If you have a bright constitution, it will not eat your blood. "After that, I grabbed Du Dian''s little hand and moved it to the top of the crystal ball. There just happened to be a small round hole at the top. This crystal ball was actually a container.


    With a stroke of the blade, Du Di''an felt a slight pain in his finger, and a drop of blood dripped down from the fingerprint, just fell into the round hole and slid inward.


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    At this time, the "Bright Worm" sleeping soundly in the crystal ball seemed to be disturbed. It woke up from a sweet dream and raised its head slightly towards the place where the blood had slipped as if sniffing. The next moment, it crawled towards the blood.


    Seeing this scene, Fino''s face changed, and the other young man frowned.


    Du Dian thought of Fino''s previous words, and his heart sank.


    I saw that the bright worm quickly climbed to the front of the blood, and then, its body was like a sponge, sucking the blood, and the pure white body also became a blush, but the blush soon gradually dissipated and recovered. Pure white.


    "Impossible..." Fino frowned and murmured, "Is it because I haven''t eaten for too long and I''m too hungry?"


    With a slash in his hand, he cut his fingers and dripped blood.


    However, the bright worm didn''t even look at it, crawled back to the cold part of the bottom of the crystal ball, and curled up.


    Fino''s face became gloomy, and he squeezed Du Dian''s little hand without saying a word, cut it quickly, dripping blood, and when the blood just fell into the crystal ball, the light worm crawled over and quickly inhaled.


    "Really not!" Fino seemed a little discouraged, let go of Du Dian''s little hand, and put away his own knife.


    Another young man looked at Du Dian and said indifferently: "It seems that your previous family was pretty good."


    Du Di''an probably knew the reason at this time. The "bright physique" in Fino''s mouth is just that the immune antibody to radiation in the body is higher than that of ordinary people, so the radiation content in the body is lower than that of ordinary people. Humans are the "hunter" partners they are looking for, but they are not. It is just because the exposure to this world is too short after coming out of the freezer, so the radiation content in the body is not high.


    Hearing another young man''s words, Du Di''an immediately understood what he meant, and his heart was secretly stunned. It seems that these people have already investigated themselves and know that they and the Jula couple are adopted, and most of them also know that they have not been in Meishan Orphanage for long. , The reason why he said this is that he mistakenly thought that he was a child abandoned by aristocratic or wealthy families. Only the food and drink of these families were repeatedly filtered, and the radiation content was extremely low.


    "I didn''t expect it to be just an abandoned rich kid, happy for nothing." Fino sighed with disappointment on his face.


    Du Di''an was not disappointed. Once he became a hunter, he would go to those dangerous areas. Although he didn''t know what the danger was, it was best not to be as dangerous as he imagined.


    Another young man looked at Du Dian and said in a cold voice: "Little guy, you must not say anything about this place, you know, including the word "hunter"! "


    Is this permission suppression? Du Dian nodded and said, "I will keep my mouth shut."


    The young man saw that he was so obedient, and the chill in his eyes lightened slightly, he snorted coldly and said to Fino: "Fortunately, your big mouth didn''t talk too much, otherwise you can only "handle" this little guy. "


    Hearing this, Du Di''s heart froze, and his life was almost buried inadvertently? At the same time, he was also a little angry at the cold words of this young man. In the eyes of the other party, there was no respect for life at all!


    But soon, he was stunned. In this world, maybe his life is really cheap!


    Thinking of this, he felt more and more that he had to make one or two things to save his life first, otherwise, he would die like this for no apparent reason and go to hell. How could he face his parents who gave him his life twice?


    "Firearms can''t be done yet, but gunpowder seems to be able to..." Some thoughts flashed in his mind.


    The two of Fino had no idea what kind of terrifying weapon was emerging in the mind of the child besides their legs.


    "Hey!" Fino still couldn''t hold back his regret, and said to Du Di''an: "Let''s go, little guy." There was no half of the previous enthusiasm and friendliness in his attitude.


    "Where?"


    "Why don''t you ask, go where you should go, you must remember it for me, don''t tell anyone about us, including your parents, if you are found to be leaking secrets, you can only blame yourself for being unlucky. ."


    "What about the hunter?"

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    When leaving, Fino drove alone, instead of going to the scavenger castle that Du Di''an had seen before, but went directly to the residential area, parked under the high wall, and let Du Di''an get out of the car and walk back by himself.


    "Don''t I have to be a "scavenger"? "Du Dian was a little puzzled.


    Fino jumped back to the carriage and said impatiently, "We have already tested you, so there is no need to go there to test. After a few days, someone will take you to report." After speaking, the rope in his hand shook. , the black carriage galloped away.


    Du Di''an frowned slightly, turned, and walked along the street to the Jula couple''s house. Fortunately, he followed the El''s carriage back once before and wrote down the route, otherwise he would have to get lost.


    By the time he returned to No. 108, Linking Street, he was gasping for breath from exhaustion, his body was dripping with sweat, and his legs were sore. Although Jula and his wife lived not far from this high wall, only seven or eight miles away, his body had not recovered from the aftermath of the freezer, and his physical strength was much weaker than that of ordinary children of the same age.


    At the door of the house, the Jules couple stood there and looked around. When they saw Du Dian appearing from the corner of the street, their eyes lit up and they quickly greeted them.


    Grech said, "Why didn''t anyone send you? You walked back by yourself?"


    Jula rolled his eyes at him and said, "Go back and talk about it."


    Gray woke up, immediately picked up Du Di''an''s tired and weak body, and hurried back home. After closing the door, Jula found a cotton towel to wipe Du Di''an''s sweat, and said with concern, "Child, are you all right? Those people didn''t treat you well, did they?"


    When Du Di''an saw their reaction, he knew what most of them knew, and asked, "Do you know?"


    "Someone from above informed us that you are qualified to join the guards." Gray looked at Du Di''an''s hot red face and said suspiciously: "Did you fail your test?"


    Du Di Anxin thought, it seems that the identity of the "scavenger" also needs to be kept secret, and said: "Passed, someone will take me to report in a few days, but I don''t want to go, can I refuse this matter?"


    If he could choose, he would still be willing to learn the law first, master more things, and then go outside the giant wall to see the scenery there.


    Gray breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Do you know how many people who want to go have no chance? You still want to refuse, but being able to be a guard will save you from worrying about food, drink, birth, old age, sickness, and death in your life, just standing guard every day, just It''s great to have a big salary and no one dares to bully you."


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    Jula looked at Du Dian tenderly and said, "Do you still want to learn the law?"


    Du Dian nodded seriously.


    "I asked for you." Jula smiled and said, "When you go there for training, you can also study the law, not only the law but also medicine, geology, sewing, etc. It''s a comprehensive school. ."


    School? Du Dian was startled.


    Many people can''t tell the difference between a college and a school. Simply put, an academy specializes in one subject, such as a law school and a sewing school, but a school is composed of multiple colleges, and the things learned are very comprehensive!


    "What is there to learn about the law? When you become a guard, you won''t have to worry about anything." Gray patted Du Di''an on the shoulder, smiled, and encouraged: "Come on, I heard that there will be eliminations in the training camp, But you have to concentrate and don''t be brushed off."


    Du Di''an was relieved and learned comprehensively? This is exactly what he wants.


    "Auntie." Du Di''an seized the opportunity and said to Jula, "I want to borrow some pocket money, and I will definitely pay you back in the future!"


    Jula was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "As much as you want, I''ll give it to you. If you borrow it or not, it''s all a family."


    "That''s right." Gray smiled and said, "Having lived here for so long, Dean should change his tune."


    Du Di install pretended not to understand what he said, made an estimate in his heart, and said, "About one hundred copper coins."


    "So much?" Jula and the two were stunned. One hundred copper coins were almost equal to their living expenses for half a month. Grech said, "What do you want to buy, you need so much?"


    Du Di''an had already thought about the reason and said, "I want to buy some food and go back to see my friends in the orphanage." After speaking, he said silently in his heart, I will borrow you first, and then I will visit you later.


    Jula smiled slightly and said, "It should be, for you." After that, she took out a stack of green copper coins from her wallet, counted it, and handed it to Du Di''an exactly one hundred.


    Since the advent of printing technology ten years ago, the Xinghai Bank under the management of Silvia Giant Wall has issued a large number of banknotes. In just a few years, they have replaced coins and circulated to various households in residential areas. I also gradually got used to trading with light paper money.


    "Thank you!" Du Dian took it immediately, without any points, and put it in his pocket.


    Seeing this, Gray couldn''t say anything else and waved to Jula to make dinner.


    The next morning.


    Du Di''an got up on time, had breakfast after washing, said hello to Jula and his wife, and went straight out. Although he didn''t know when the "scavengers" would send someone to pick him up, he didn''t have to go to law school for classes these days.


    "Sulphur..." Du Di''an vaguely remembered the practice of gunpowder. It was a holiday when his sister told him to make firecrackers for him, but he didn''t know what else he needed besides sulfur. After all, he was still young at the time. Not interested in these things.


    Du Di''an did not go directly to buy sulfur, but called a carriage, went to the slum, and got back something that belonged to him.


    Soon, after entering the slum, Du Dian walked directly towards the Meishan Orphanage, and then turned into a remote and dilapidated street when separated by four streets, and went straight forward, the smell of feces and rotten bugs along the way. , made him frown slightly, and not long after, he came to a huge garbage dump.


    Garbage dumps in slums are really garbage dumps.


    Here, you will never find anything that has value for use. It is a fool''s dream to want to Taobao in it.


    Therefore, even the poor will not come here, because all the items discarded here have been turned over long ago.


    Du Di''an stood far away and could smell a strong smell of rancidity mixed with excrement and urine. Many poor or homeless people were still willing to solve the problem of excretion here.


    There are seven or eight black garbage dumps, as huge as hills. Du Di''an seemed to be familiar with the road. He came to one of the garbage dumps, looked left and right, and after confirming that there was no one nearby, he bent down and squatted down. A black cloth of garbage and unknown mucus, this black cloth revealed a tiny hole, just enough to accommodate such a thin and thin body.


    Of course, this is not a coincidence, but this void, which he opened with his own hands.

 Super Chips

    Du Di''an took off his coat, found a slightly drier ground beside him and put it on, and climbed into the garbage hole again with his shirtless. Fortunately, there is no steel and glass in this garbage. After all, steel is energy Recycling, no poor people would be so extravagant that they would abandon them, and as for glass products, poor people could not afford to use them either.


    The pungent odor constantly eroded Du Di''an''s brain, causing his stomach to tumble. From time to time, his palms would touch wet and soft objects. In the dark, it was unimaginable whether it was a lump of shit, or a rotting and puffed mouse corpse, here, even a sloppy poor, will feel that life is better than death.


    Du Dian gritted his teeth tightly, and after climbing seven or eight meters, he finally touched a hard object, which was his freezer!


    He felt along the gap in the edge of the case, quickly found a button, and pressed it down.


    "Verifying your fingerprints..." A cold mechanical voice sounded from the darkness.


    Soon, with a click, the freezer opened, and the force of the hatch opening pushed the garbage above it slightly, but more garbage fell into the freezer, almost filling the place where he once slept. Full.


    Du Dian glanced at the hatch, where there was a two-finger-wide red number: 300.


    This is the year.


    It was this that let him know that he woke up three hundred years later.


    The reason for three hundred years is because the three energy tubes in the freezer can only supply three hundred years of freezing, which is the limit.


    Du Dian reached inside and quickly touched a raised button. With a click, an alloy built-in disk popped up in the cabin, with a palm-sized screen supported by several mechanical brackets.


    "Scan the iris..."


    The previous mechanical sound sounded from the cabin, and the iris recording light shot out from the palm-sized screen.


    Du Dian immediately leaned up and aimed at his eyes.


    "Verified..." The mechanical sound sounded again, and a three-dimensional virtual shadow popped up on the screen. There were two options, start, and exit.


    Du Dian gritted his teeth slightly and chose "start".


    When the disaster broke out, he was not the only one who was frozen, but also this super chip. It can be said that this is the essence of the civilization of the entire old era. It stores all the technologies of the old era and the social history of various countries, although these are all informational. It doesn''t take up much memory when it comes to patterns, but thousands of years of social development and technological development in various countries around the world add up to at least tens of thousands of grams of storage.


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    Du Dian thought of his father''s last words: "Remember, we must rebuild human civilization..."


    Obviously, being able to use the freezer to escape the disaster, his father also considered the problem of human survival after the disaster, the outbreak of the global nuclear bomb, causing a devastating blow, the fault of civilization, and the things in this super chip, covering the All the wisdom of old times!


    The basic principles of making gunpowder and firearms are naturally included.


    "There is no "electricity" in this world. Fortunately, the remaining energy in the freezer can not be used for human body freezing, but it can at least maintain the basic operation of the freezer. It can be used to learn this for at least a few months. "Du Di''s peace of mind estimates that the power consumption of this small screen is lower than that of a laptop, and it may not consume one kilowatt of electricity for 24 hours.


    However, Du Dian didn''t have so much time to stay here, and he didn''t have time to come here often to watch, otherwise, it would arouse the suspicion of the Jules couple.


    "You can only hurry up, let''s learn how to make gunpowder and generators for the time being, and take a look at the tools of the steam age." Du Dian lay on the side of the freezer and began to study seriously.


    The surroundings were full of stench, decay, and the unpleasant smell of feces and urine. He endured it. Gradually, he seemed to get used to it. Instead, he was attracted by the contents of the chip and devoted himself to it.


    "Sulfur decomposition..."


    "Watt''s improved steam engine..."


    In this small and dark garbage hole, Du Di''an studied attentively, time passed by unconsciously, Du Di''an was not completely absorbed, his concept of time was very strict, at about four o''clock in the afternoon, at dusk, he rubbed sour With swollen eyes, he withdrew from the teaching of the super chip. He didn''t eat or drink for a whole day. He felt like a fire was burning in his stomach.


    "I don''t know when I can come next time. The outside of the freezer is covered with moss and rock ash from volcanic eruptions. It was thrown here as a strange rock. The rock layer cracked when the hatch was opened last time. If someone Sees, you will definitely notice that there is metal inside, and the super chip must be taken away." Du Di''an made a decision that it was too dangerous to keep the super chip here.


    Previously, he did not bring the super chip when he was in the Meishan Orphanage. That was because the children of the orphanage were all sleeping together, and it was inevitable that people would notice. Although others did not know how to open it, they could not open it, but at least they recognized the memory chip. The player is metal and glass.


    It''s different now. There is no mobile power supply, and the player is equivalent to a dummy. He can only leave with the super chip. This small chip will not attract too much attention. Even if it attracts attention, no one will care. After all, the appearance of the chip is like a small sheet of metal, for people in residential areas, is not worth seeing at all.


    Click, Du Dian opened the chip storage card slot on the back of the player and squeezed out the small chip the size of a fingernail inside. He sighed in his heart that thousands of years of human history are contained in this small chip if this The rulers of the world know what is in this chip, and they don''t know how to look.


    Carefully putting away the chip, Du Dian closed the freezer again, thinking secretly in his heart, I hope to see it again next time I come. He turned around with difficulty and crawled out of the garbage dump. The distance of just seven or eight meters was like a baptism from hell. When he climbed out of the exit, the air with a weaker smell outside breathed into his nostrils. It was so fresh.


    He took a few deep breaths, looked left and right, and saw that no one was paying attention, and the coat was still on the ground, so he stopped staying immediately, picked up the coat, and quickly left the garbage dump.


    Not far from the garbage dump, there is a low-lying land on which the radiation rain that fell a few days ago is accumulated. The water is quite clear, and Du Di''an is too lazy to care about the radiation, so he dropped his jacket and picked up the water to clean it. He raised his arms and chest. Anyway, there is a super chip. As long as a stable power supply is made early, he can find a way to reduce the radiation in the body.


    He searched it before, and there was a record in the chip, but the time was limited.


    Soon, the body was cleaned a little bit, and the sticky things were wiped off, especially the left hand, which was still stained with feces, making him nauseous.


    "It''s almost dead once." After washing, Du Di''an felt a new life, but he knew that there was still a strong stench in his hair and body. This can only be washed at home, otherwise, he will continue to use this stagnant water. , you will get sick after washing.

 Gathering

    Du Dian dragged his body back to the residential area, spent five copper coins, called a carriage near the high wall, and sent it directly to Linking Street. It was too late today, and there was no time to buy sulfur and saltpeter. The scavenger training camp is going to take place every day. Judging from the degree of secrecy of this organization, most of the things brought there will be closely inspected.


    Although in this world, people only know how to use sulfur to make dyes and pesticides, they are also low-toxic dangerous goods.


    Jula and his wife were obviously in a hurry. When they saw Du Di''an coming back, they were obviously relieved. The next moment they smelled the strong stench, Gray frowned and pulled away: "What is the strange smell on your body, why? so dirty?"


    Du Dian coughed lightly and said, "I fell in the slum."


    "What else are you asking, go wash up soon, I''ll boil hot water for you." Jula pinched her nose and ran into the kitchen.


    Du Di''an entered the bathroom and put the super chip in the gap on the floor next to him. After a while, Jula brought a basin of hot water, "You have to wash it, do you want me to help you?"


    "No." Du Dian quickly refused.


    "Okay, then wash yourselves slowly and clean." Jula put the water on the ground and turned around to go out.


    Du Di''an looked at this small basin of water, smiled bitterly in his heart, and suddenly remembered the shaggy head shower of the old times. Unfortunately, in this world, the radiation in the water cannot be completely filtered, at least in residential areas, which made him yearn for an early Step into the business district.


    ...


    ...


    three days later.


    A tall carriage galloped to the door of the Jula couple''s house. The horse pulling the carriage was extremely strong, about two meters high. It was dressed in exquisitely crafted armor. The black hair on the whole body was mixed with some brown hair, like a crossbreed.


    A young man in standard soft armor got off the carriage. He was thin, but his posture was as straight as a gun. He glanced at the house number and knocked on the door.


    The Jules couple and Du Di''an, who were having breakfast, saw the carriage from the window long ago, and secretly said in their hearts. Jula immediately went to open the door and said enthusiastically, "Please come in."


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    The young man in the standard soft armor saw that she seemed to know his purpose, but he still showed his identity card. It was a medal with crossed swords, representing the identity of a "guardian". He did not enter the room and said, "No, I am short of time. This time, I''m here to take your children to the military training grounds in the commercial area. You must have already received the above notice, so get ready, I''m in a hurry."


    Jula didn''t expect him to be in such a hurry, so she hurriedly said, "Excuse me, officer, how long will this child be going for military training?"


    The standard soft armor youth calmly said: "The training time is three years. During these three years, there is one day off every month, and I can come back to reunite with you. However, my suggestion is to take a good rest during the vacation, or It is to add some knowledge, otherwise, it will be difficult to last for three years."


    Jula''s face changed, "So hard? What would happen if you were eliminated?"


    "Don''t worry, even if you are eliminated, you can still get a small position." The standard soft armored youth said indifferently.


    When Gray heard their conversation, he breathed a sigh of relief, but when he turned his head, he saw Du Dian who was still eating slowly.


    Du Dian sighed. He hated being interrupted while eating. Before that, he had a temper attack. Looking at Gray''s widened eyes, he could only put down the vegetable rolls, clapped his hands, returned to his room, and put the two sets of clothes that had been folded in the linen backpack, and of course, the most important thing was his own super chip, Has been in his pocket for a change of clothes that he received.


    After getting ready, Du Di''an put on his backpack, came to the door, looked up at the young man with standard soft armor, and said, "Let''s go."


    With reluctance in Jula''s eyes, she said, "Have you put everything on, the clothes, the cups you washed..."


    "It''s all installed." Du Dian waved his hand and said he didn''t have to worry.


    "Be careful when you go there, don''t fight with other children, just be patient."


    Du Di''s heart felt warm. Although he was brooding about being sold to Ivy''s house last time, he could also see that Jula was sincere to him. After all, it is no match for reality, but after all, it is an adoption relationship, and he is already very grateful.


    "I will, you also have to take care of yourself, the temperature in the "Black Death Season" is high, open more windows to ventilate, and don''t catch the plague. "Du Dian asked.


    Jula is a sentimental person. Tears welled up in her eyes when she thought of how long it would take Du Dian to see each other again.


    "Let''s go." The standard soft-armored youth turned around and jumped into the carriage, without any intention of helping Du with some backpacks.


    Du Dian climbed into the carriage, looked at Jula and Gray at the door, waved his hand, and there was a hint of reluctance in his heart, but soon, this ray of emotion was suppressed in his heart, and he held his backpack tightly and his eyes were cold. Down, the soft heart also becomes hard and strong.


    ...


    ...


    The carriage galloped, and after entering the commercial area, it turned around a dozen streets and gradually entered a remote street with few people. Not long after continuing on, a huge high wall blocked the carriage. The young man in standard soft armor flicked the horse rope, and the carriage ran along the high wall. It didn''t take long before he came to an open door, which was surrounded by a huge giant. The iron fence door was locked, two warriors with swords and swords were engraved on the door, and two characters were engraved on the bottom.


    "Loyalty" and "Guardian"!


    "Get out of the car!" The young man in standard soft armor shouted softly.


    Du Dian jumped off the carriage and quietly observed the new surroundings.


    "Follow me." The young man in the standard soft armor glanced at him, let go of the reins, and was not afraid of the carriage running away, he led the way on his own and entered through a small door beside the huge iron gate.


    Behind this gate is a huge school field. The standard soft armored youth brought Du Dian to a small remote spire behind the school field. As soon as he arrived here, he heard a low cry.


    The standard soft-armored youth frowned, pushed open the wooden door, and saw seven or eight children the size of Du Di''an standing in the hall of the minaret. At this moment, one of the curly-haired little girls hugged her knees, squatting on the ground and crying, and the boys beside her were at a loss. Embarrassed.


    The face of the young man in the standard soft armor turned cold and said, "What''s going on?"


    One of the boys was startled. After seeing the youth with the standard soft armor, he hurriedly said, "Mi, Minnie said she was homesick."


    The standard soft-armored youth said indifferently: "Really?" Stepping up to the little girl, he ordered: "Give you two seconds, stop crying, stand up!"


    The little girl was timid, and when she heard his cold words, she was so frightened that she stopped her voice and stood up trembling, but tears were still swirling in her eyes.

 Adaptation

    "Although I''m not your instructor, I hate to see someone crying in front of me." The standard soft-armored youth said coldly: "After you are sent to the dormitory, you can cry as much as you want, otherwise you will not have the strength to cry in the future. ."


    Several children were pale and dared not speak. The little girl named Minnie clenched her hands tightly around the corners of her clothes and bowed her head to hold back her tears.


    The young man in the standard soft armor glanced at a few children, too lazy to reprimand him, went to the counter, opened a drawer, grabbed a bunch of keys from it, turned around, and said, "Follow me." He left the hall.


    Du Dian immediately followed, and the children also picked up their backpacks on the ground and followed.


    Following the path in the woods, everyone came to a low and dilapidated wooden shed. The young man in standard soft armor stepped forward to open a few doors and said, "That''s it, go and choose an empty bed by yourself. The special training will start tomorrow morning." After that, he threw the key to open the door to Du Dian, who was not far from him and left directly.


    Du Dian grabbed the three keys in his hand, looked at the row of dilapidated wooden sheds, and frowned slightly. This was specially built for them to live in. It is completely incomparable with the gorgeous, unique, and sturdy buildings around, even in In the slums, there are also relatively poor houses.


    Is this making us experience suffering? Du Dian knew that the special training did not start from tomorrow morning, but from this moment.


    He walked to the door of the three rooms and looked at them respectively. The layout inside was the same. There were four beds in each wooden shed. After taking a look, I picked a relatively clean wooden board, put my backpack on it, preempted it, and prepared to wait for everyone else to choose their own beds, then go out to find some leaves or weeds, and wipe the bed.


    At this time, other children came to choose the bed one after another. When they saw the simple and old wooden boards inside, they were stunned, and then they stopped at the door of the room unbearably. The little girl named Minnie squatted down and started crying again.


    have to! When Du Di''an saw it, he knew that he thought too much. Most of the time, these children would not step into this room. After all, they grew up in a residential area. How could they have seen such a harsh environment?


    He immediately put the keys to the other two rooms at the door, leaving the one in his own room in his hand, then went under the nearby woods, and quickly picked up some dry fallen leaves and green grass. I wiped a few pieces of black mold on the wooden board and felt regretful in my heart. If I had known this, I should have brought a mattress and quilt at home.


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    The other children watched Du Di''an busy here alone, stopped feeling sorry for themselves, and looked at Du Di''an blankly. After a while, one of the older children gritted their teeth and said to the other children: "Let''s live there first, bear with it for a while, it will definitely get better."


    In despair, hope is always needed for encouragement. When the other children saw that someone could adopt, they suddenly felt that it was not so unbearable, and silently chose their beds one by one.


    The eldest child chose Du Di''an''s room. He seemed to be curious about Du Di''an and said, "My name is Macon, what''s your name?"


    "Dudian."


    "You don''t seem to be afraid of getting dirty." The child is so direct.


    "Actually, I have a mild cleanliness addiction." Du Di''an said.


    "What is cleanliness?"


    "¡­¡­nothing."


    Macon scratched his head and didn''t know what to say. He saw a few mildew spots on the bed. Thinking of Du Di''an''s previous method, he immediately left the room and pulled some green grass outside to wipe it, but the mildew on his bed The spots were too big, and no matter how much he wiped them, they were black and cloudy.


    Du Dian glanced at him and said, "Actually, it''s much better to bask in the sun."


    Macon was stunned for a moment, clapped his hands, and said, "Yes, I almost forgot." He immediately greeted the previous children, and said loudly: "Everyone should move the bedboard outside to dry it, so as not to rot inside."


    As soon as the other children heard it, they immediately mobilized.


    Macon looked at Du Dian, "Don''t you need to be exposed?"


    "I can''t move."


    "I''ll help you," Macon said immediately.


    This is what Du Dian is waiting for. Although he can speak directly, he has never liked to ask for help since he was a child, and said, "Thank you." Then, he and Macon carried the bed board and moved it to the open space outside.


    Not long after, another young man in standard soft armor came over with a group of children.


    The young man in standard soft armor looked at the bed planks covered in the open space, stunned, frowned slightly, but didn''t say anything, just like the previous one, he opened a few rooms at random, let the group of children choose by themselves, and left The key is gone.


    The group of children looked at Du Dian, Macon, and others curiously, and then looked at the beds in their own rooms, stunned one by one. After a while, they also cooperated in pairs and moved the bed boards to the open space outside. Sun up.


    ...


    ...


    "Are these children''s homes ready?" Dashani came to the window, holding a metal tube in her hand and wearing white thin silk gloves. If Du Di''an was here, she would recognize it as an old-fashioned telescope. She pulled away slightly and looked at the open space at the end of the woods behind the minaret building, and immediately saw a row of wooden sheds in the open space through the telescope.


    "Everything is in accordance with your instructions. This time the living environment will remain unchanged, and the supply of hot water and bedding will be stopped." Tuobu respectfully said: "I believe they will adapt to the hardships quickly. This time, I am confident I to bring out a hundred people. "Scavenger"! "


    Dashani nodded slightly, and suddenly saw a group of children in the open space in front of the wooden shed, carrying the bed planks and plopping on the dry open space. She couldn''t help but be startled slightly. After a while, she put away the telescope and said, "These children, You have to take good care of yourself. Now the number of passing grades is decreasing every year. Only by improving the way of teaching can you maintain a stable number of scavengers. In addition, the number of guards is also close to saturation. It is best to dispel them. '' idea."


    Tob lowered his head and said, "Yes!"


    ...


    ...


    In the evening, the children worked together to help each other move the bed planks back to their rooms.


    Macon opened the backpack, took out a quilt from it, and spread it on the bed, immediately making the other two children who chose this room envious. The other two children chatted.


    Du Dian put a change of clothes under his body, closed his eyes, and reviewed the knowledge he had seen from the super chip in his mind.


    I fell asleep unconsciously, but when I woke up again, it was five o''clock in the morning the next day. It was still dark, and Du Di''an was awakened by a piercing and strange cry. When Du Di''an and the other children got up together, they came outside to see At that time, he saw something half-human tall like a bird, raising his neck in front of the wooden shed, and his voice was extremely harsh and sharp as if it could penetrate the eardrum.

 Just learn to live!

    Children from all walks of life came to the new environment for the first time, and it was such a messy and unbearable place. In the room, looking at the dark sky outside, the temperature in the early morning was extraordinarily cold, and some people who were wearing fewer clothes couldn''t help shivering.


    At this time, the strange bird called three times and stopped.


    Seeing that it was quiet, some children were ready to go back to sleep again.


    In vain, a two-meter tall brown-haired strong man stepped into the open space in front of the wooden shed and roared, "Give you three minutes, gather immediately, and stand in front of me!"


    Many children were startled and realized that the special training had begun.


    Du Di''an''s biological clock was destroyed, and he couldn''t help but have a headache. He restrained his emotions, turned back to the room, and prepared to add a coat, but after thinking about it, he gave up and simply washed his face with cold water in the well at the door, and then When I came to the open space outside the wooden shed, it was only two and a half minutes away from the time given by the strong man.


    The other children simply gave up washing up, and after getting dressed, they gathered early, trying to make a good impression on this person who seemed to be an instructor. However, there are also some children who are still changing their clothes when the three minutes have passed, especially some girls, holding a lot of clothes in their luggage, hesitating about which one to wear today.


    The brown-haired strong man did not urge but waited quietly.


    Time passed little by little, and after about five minutes, they finally assembled.


    The brown-haired strong man looked around the crowd and said calmly, "Since today is the first day, I personally asked you to get up and gather. Starting from tomorrow, I hope to see everyone standing up when I come here!"


    "Yes!" Several bold boys answered loudly.


    The brown-haired strong man nodded slightly, "Very good, you are five minutes late today, everyone will go to the school field for five laps and come back."


    The faces of many children changed slightly. They had seen that huge school field, let alone five laps, even one lap would be exhausting.


    "Teacher, why everyone?"


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    "We didn''t have more than three minutes!"


    "Even if you''re late, you''re only two minutes late, why five minutes?"


    Several boys couldn''t help but said.


    The brown-haired strong man said indifferently: "First of all, even if you all meet within the three minutes I stipulated, you will be three minutes late and you will have to run three laps. Second, you are a group, and if anyone falls behind, everyone else is obliged to protect themselves. partner to bear.¡±


    "Teacher, I''m not convinced!"


    "There will always be someone holding back, and I''m not convinced!"


    Several boys suddenly said angrily.


    The strong brown-haired man licked his lips and said, "Isn''t it a question?" It wasn''t a question at all. As soon as he finished speaking, his strong, elephant-like legs kicked the belly of one of the boys who were unconvinced. The strength pushed the boy backward and flew out, hitting several other children, and collapsed all at once.


    "You''re also not convinced?" The strong brown-haired man walked up to the other child who was not convinced, but he didn''t ask. As soon as he finished speaking, he kicked it out, and the boy also flew backward, overwhelming three or four boys.


    The brown-haired strong man snorted coldly and said, "I am here, only obedience! If anyone refuses to obey, I will beat you to obey. To tell you the truth, even if I kill you, it will be fine!" With a sneer, he said, "There were quite a few children like you in the previous class, who were beaten to death by me right where I was standing, but unfortunately you didn''t see it, I hope you will have less garbage in this class. my hand!"


    All the children were frightened and turned pale when they watched him say such vicious words with a face full of flesh.


    Some of the girls were so frightened that their legs were weak and tears were pouring out, but they didn''t dare to cry.


    Seeing that the scene had calmed down, the brown-haired strong man snorted coldly: "What are you waiting for, I didn''t finish the run in ten minutes, and I didn''t have breakfast!" Having said this, he suddenly smiled, "This one can not follow the collective system, whoever didn''t finish the run, who I don''t want to let individual garbage lower everyone''s level."


    Hearing this, many sturdy children suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.


    Du Di''an sighed and complained secretly in his heart. He didn''t have to run to know that he would definitely not be able to finish on time.


    Soon, under the leadership of this strong brown-haired man, everyone came to the school grounds to start running.


    However, the school field is so big that even the best-fit kids in this group couldn''t finish the run in ten minutes. Some were a minute or two late, some were four or five minutes late, and they all lost their breakfast. Opportunity.


    And Du Di''an''s performance stunned everyone. Of course, it was not fast, but slow, and not generally slow. Even some frail girls ran in twenty minutes, but Du Di''an took a whole thirty minutes!


    In the end, he won the last place with an "undisputed" result, which also stunned Macon and the other two boys who lived in the same room as him, and immediately distanced themselves from Du Di''an, with a face I don''t know what this guy looks like.


    Although Du Di''an was relatively calm, he still blushed slightly when he saw the strange eyes cast by everyone, but he calmed down afterward, but he felt his progress. The ground has weakened. If it was a few months ago, let alone five laps in thirty minutes, even in one morning, he might not be able to finish it!


    I feel tired just walking, let alone running.


    The brown-haired strong man glanced at Du Dian and said nothing.


    This made Du Di''an a little surprised. He thought he would be a negative teaching material for being slaughtered, and he brought it up to ridicule a few words, but he didn''t expect anything.


    "Everyone gathers!" After the brown-haired strong man waited for Du Dian to finish running, he called everyone to gather again. This time, everyone''s movements were much quicker, and they were quickly lined up.


    "I''ll formally introduce myself to you first. My name is Tob." The brown-haired strong man said indifferently: "I''m the teacher who will be in charge of training you for the next three years. My rule is only one, which is to obey any orders I give! I don''t want to. Hear some idiots questioning again! Of course, I don''t want the people I teach to be a group of puppet woods who only know how to obey orders. Questions other than my orders, I welcome questions. "


    "Teacher, what are we learning here, just exercising?" A boy asked immediately, looking at him a little nervously.


    Tuobu smiled lightly and said, "Here, as long as you learn to live, you can graduate."


    "Alive?"


    All the children were stunned.


    Du Dian''s heart froze, he can become a scavenger after graduation, which means that it is easy to suffer death outside the giant wall!

 The Idiot Question

    "Here, I will teach you how to survive and survive in an environment of nothingness." Tuobu said indifferently: "Today is your first day here, I am very kind and give you three opportunities to reward, as long as you answer correctly My questions, and I''ll be rewarded."


    All the children''s eyes lit up when they heard it.


    "The first question." Tuobu said coldly, "How can I survive?"


    All the children were taken aback.


    How to live?


    They have never thought about this issue. They have been sheltered by their parents since they were young. When they reach the age of entry, they choose their favorite colleges.


    "Make money!" A girl immediately raised her hand to answer.


    When the other children heard it, they sighed in annoyance, yes, if you want to survive, of course, you have to learn to make money. With such a simple answer, others have taken the lead!


    But Tuobu remained indifferent, and spit out two words: "Wrong!"


    All the children were stunned, was it not right?


    "Work?" the other boy said tentatively.


    Taub glanced at him and said indifferently: "Wrong! By the way, everyone has only one chance to answer."


    All the children looked at each other.


    Neither earning money nor working?


    "Teacher, you said to live, under what circumstances do you live?" A little girl with a fair complexion frowned and thought.


    Tuobu glanced at her and said indifferently: "Nothing happens, just live!"


    Hearing this, all the children couldn''t help but be stunned.


    Du Dian also frowned slightly, and his mind turned rapidly. According to his observation, there should be no need for this Tuobu to make a mystery, and the previous answer is undoubtedly correct. If it must be defined as a mistake, then there is only one answer left.


    "Eat!" he raised his hand.


    As soon as he finished speaking, the surrounding children looked over, stunned, and then some children burst out laughing.


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    to eat?


    Can you answer more idiots?


    "Correct!" Tob said indifferently.


    All children: "..."


    Looking at the dumbfounded expressions of all the children, Tuobu sneered: "With such a simple answer, only one person answered it correctly, and the reward that was given away almost couldn''t be given away. In addition to water, do you have feces in your brain?"


    All the children looked ugly, but they were a little unconvinced, but they had seen Tuobu''s previous atrocities, but no one dared to question it.


    Du Di''an breathed a sigh of relief. Originally, he thought the same as other children. He thought it couldn''t be such a simple and almost idiotic answer. He didn''t expect to win the bet.


    "The second question below." Tob said indifferently: "How can I get food?"


    All the children were stunned, what is this strange question?


    "Make money!" A voice said quickly, it was the little girl who answered before, and this time she chose the same answer.


    The other children suddenly wanted to stomp their feet. Damn, it was missed before, and this one was robbed again.


    "Wrong!" Taub still said coldly.


    The little girl was stunned, she couldn''t believe her ears, was it wrong again?


    The other children were also a little stunned, but they quickly realized that they still had a chance, and hurriedly raised their hands to answer.


    "I, I know, it''s work!"


    "Ask mom!"


    "Chew with your upper and lower teeth!"


    The last boy thought of the simple answer of Du Dian''s reverse thinking and immediately said tentatively.


    Taub couldn''t help but glance at him, with a hint of sarcasm on his face, "Why, you can still chew cabbage with your butt?"


    The boy blushed instantly.


    "It''s all wrong, a bunch of rubbish!" Tob said coldly.


    Du Dian didn''t expect the answers he also wanted to say we''re all wrong, and he couldn''t help but fall into contemplation, recalling his previous way of thinking, the first step in living is to eat, and the first step to eat...


    "Look for food!" Du Dian raised his hand again.


    Tob gave him a light look and said, "Correct!"


    All the children were dumbfounded again.


    It''s that simple?


    It''s that simple? ?!


    "The last question below." Tuobu said indifferently: "How to find food?"


    All the children couldn''t help looking at Du Dian.


    Du Di''an was a little helpless when he saw the strange eyes of these children. This time he really didn''t know.


    Seeing that Du Dian didn''t mean to answer, the other children lowered their heads and thought. After a while, another child raised their hands to answer. The answer was similar to the previous one, especially the little girl who said "making money". The third answer is still It is to make money, and it seems that there is a way to go to the black, but the answer is still wrong in the end.


    Soon, after one lap, hardly a single child answered correctly.


    Tob looked around and said, "Why, no one knows?"


    Several children standing near Du Di''an couldn''t help looking at him, knowing that he hadn''t answered yet.


    Du Di''an felt their gaze and even felt that Tuobu glanced at him, as if waiting for him to answer, but this time he really didn''t know, and the answers he could think of were all answered by others.


    "It seems that there is no more." Seeing that Du Dian didn''t mean to answer, Tuobu stopped waiting and said plainly: "The first step in finding food is to learn to distinguish food. Today''s first lesson is to teach you how to recognize food. food."


    When Du Dian heard this, he finally knew the purpose of his three questions. Through his conversation with Macon yesterday, he confirmed his guess. The other children here didn''t know that they were not training for guards, but for "scavengers", and Du Dian knew from Fino that, Scavengers are looking for resources in the wilderness outside the giant wall. In this case, they must not carry too many resources, so they must learn how to survive in the wilderness outside the giant wall.


    Knowing food is their first lesson!


    "Teacher, what is my reward?" Du Di''an raised his hand and asked when he saw that Tuobu had not announced it for a while.


    Taub glanced at him and said, "Each question will be rewarded with one breakfast. Congratulations, you will be rewarded with two breakfasts, but today''s breakfast time has passed, and you can only use it until tomorrow."


    Just one breakfast?


    Du Dian was a little stunned, but he didn''t know that in the short half-month special training, he deeply realized how precious these two breakfasts are!


    When other children heard that the reward was just breakfast, they immediately felt a little more balanced.


    "Now, after the break, run ten laps of the school grounds!" Tuobu suddenly shouted in a low voice.


    All the children couldn''t help but be astonished. They have just finished running, and are they going to run again?


    "The time is half an hour, and every time it exceeds five minutes, add a lap!" Taub announced the rules indifferently.


    "Teacher, don''t..."


    "It''s running again, I''m about to vomit..."


    Some children couldn''t help crying, but soon they ran at full speed in the picture of the leading role model being kicked away.


    The corner of Du Dian''s mouth twitched slightly. This rule was ruthless to him, but he vaguely guessed that Tuobu was training their endurance. After all, according to Tuobu, since it was learning how to live, then the exercise was definitely not strength. And fighting, but speed and durability!

 Survival Teaching

    Time flies and three months have passed in the blink of an eye.


    In the past three months, in addition to the daily long-distance running endurance training, it is the "survival teaching course", which is a general term. It has passed the test of time for a long time. It is mainly divided into two categories, namely "foraging" and "foraging". "Gather resources"!


    This is also the basic ability that scavengers must master!


    "Foraging" is subdivided into several tasks, namely "Water Source", "Shelter", "Get Food", and "Survival".


    Each course contains a wide range of content. The first is the "water source" course, which is about finding water sources in different environments. These environments are divided into four categories: jungle, desert, mountain, and swamp!


    It is easiest to find water in the jungle, but dangers are easy to lurk in the jungle. How to avoid these dangers is what is taught in the "survival" course.


    In addition to looking for water sources, there is also water source filtration, as well as different water quality testing, and so on.


    The scavengers not only want to survive outside the giant wall but also need to collect water samples from different places and bring them back to the giant wall for research. The entire Sylvia giant wall is a huge and solid shelter!


    In addition to "foraging", "collecting resources" is also subdivided into four major courses, with a huge amount of knowledge, namely "mining", "grass gathering", "geological survey", and "exploration".


    Anyone outside is a course specialized in a separate college!


    That is to say, anyone requires three years of study in the outside academy, among which only the smart and hard-working can graduate! But here, you must learn everything in just three years!


    Only by mastering all of them can we meet the requirements that Tuobu said and be able to live!


    In the past three months, for Du Di''an, the most difficult part is not the eight courses, but the physical training of endurance training and "mining" courses. Progress is also very obvious. From the first 30 minutes and 5 laps on the first day, after a week, it reached 20 minutes and 5 laps, and after half a month, it has reached 15 minutes and 5 laps!


    It wasn''t until a month later that he got the breakfast right and was still the last of the last children!


    The two breakfast opportunities he got at the beginning were used up by him on the second day and half a month later, helping him survive.


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    The continuous surpassing of speed is not only because the sequelae of the freezer are gradually disappearing, but the most important thing is his willpower, which has allowed him to endure in a state of being exhausted to the point of coma again and again.


    In the second month, the sequelae of the freezer were eliminated. Normally, it would take another three or four months to be eliminated, but this month''s ultra-intensive exercise accelerated the process, and After the sequelae of the freezer were eliminated, his speed immediately improved dramatically, and in daily endurance training, he was able to steadily reach the top ten!


    By the third month, he was already in the top three!


    This amazing speed of progress made other children have to be impressed, especially Macon and two other children who lived in the same room with Du Di''an, who nicknamed him "Mad Cow"!


    "The Law, Chapter Two, The Normative Function of the Law..."


    In the quiet library, Du Dian stood in front of the law bookshelf, holding an introductory book on the basics of law in his hand, quietly flipping through it. Since the beginning of the third month, he has taken ten minutes every day to come to the library to study law. Law, this is the longest time he can squeeze out.


    "Dian, why are you reading the law again? Teacher Tuo said, there is an exam today, let''s hurry up and review it. If we fail, we will be eliminated." In front of a geology bookshelf next to him, Macon Wang When touched Du Dian in front of the law bookshelf again, he was speechless.


    Du Di''an made a gesture: "Shh!" Without squinting, he continued to focus on reading the basic law in his hand.


    Soon, ten minutes passed. Although he just saw one and a half paragraphs, he still closed the book and put it back. He turned around and returned to the cursive bookshelf. Once again, after confirming that nothing was missed, he put it into the bookshelf and turned to leave.


    "Dian!" Macon quickly caught up and said, "You said, what will be the test today?"


    "I don''t know." Du Dian said truthfully.


    "I hope you don''t take the geological survey, I haven''t had time to learn it." Macon rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "Otherwise if you meet me, I will help you. If you know it, How about you help me?"


    Du Di''an said angrily: "With this trick, don''t even think about cheating."


    "Try it, just do it secretly." Macon said with a bitter face: "I don''t want to be eliminated. Teacher Tuo didn''t say that those who are eliminated will lose their qualifications as guards, and the cost of special training during this time is all If I have to pay by myself, my family can''t afford such an expensive fee."


    Du Di''an shrugged, expressing powerlessness.


    Indeed, on the third day of the special training, Tuobu said this, but Du Di''an already knew that this training was nominally to select guards, but in fact, it was to train scavengers, so those who were eliminated, most of them will still become guards, and Tuobu''s remarks are equivalent to three hundred taels of silver here, which confirms Du Dian''s guess.


    Of course, for other kids, this is bad news!


    It was these words that made many children who had long wanted to give up, grit their teeth, and persisted.


    Soon, the two came to the school grounds before the specified time. There were already a lot of people gathered here, discussing in a low voice, as if guessing what the question of this exam was.


    It didn''t take long for Tob to appear on time. Before he appeared, everyone was standing neatly and meticulously. Of course, many people learned through the pain of kicking their stomachs.


    However, this time Tuobu didn''t appear alone. There was a slender, tall, and graceful figure next to him. She was a girl in her early twenties, with a wheat complexion. Her face had long since left her childishness, full of mature and sexy charm, without losing her age. He has a youthful atmosphere, with a shallow smile on his face, which makes many teenage children open their mouths slightly, and are a little stunned.


    The phenomenon of precocious puberty is not unique to this world. Even in the old days, children in their teens knew far more knowledge in certain aspects than adults thought. In this world, thirteen-year-old children are the legal age for marriage. When you reach the age of 20, you have not yet married, and it is already the age of "hate marriage". After all, under the corrosion of radiation, it is not easy for most people to live to the age of sixty.


    Feeling the dryness in the eyes of some older children, Tuobu smiled coldly and said in a low voice: "In the past three months of training, you trash have barely qualified as a basic guard. Starting today, every six months Every month, there will be a big exam, but anyone who loses will be eliminated!"


    All the children''s faces showed traces of nervousness.


    Du Dian also realized that this exam is by no means a simple knowledge test, and soon, Taub''s words confirmed his idea: "This test is very simple, and then Instructor Chris will send you to a place, You only need to survive there for ten days to qualify!"

 Desert

    "Survive for ten days?" All the children were startled, although Taub said it was "simple", but after three months of getting along, everyone already knew what he meant by "simple". No one expected that the assessment this time was not the pen-and-ink exam they had imagined, but a personal practice!


    If you want to survive for ten days, you must master all four courses in the "foraging" class!


    Soon, someone calculated.


    As long as there is a water source, the human body''s hunger strike limit is seven to fifteen days. If willpower is extremely tenacious, it is possible to live for a month. That is to say, they only need to find a way to find the water source, and there is hope to pass!


    If you''re lucky enough to find a little food, you''ll have no problem surviving ten days!


    Thinking this way, many children have a lot of confidence.


    Du Di''an frowned slightly, and he was not very optimistic in his heart. With Tuobu''s style, he would never give such a simple test.


    "Children, come with me." At this time, the ''Chrissy'' woman standing next to Tuobu said with a smile: "Sister will take you to a fun place, I''m sure you will like it."


    When some big boys heard her words, their eyes lit up.


    "Queue." Chris smiled and turned to lead the way.


    All the children stood side by side and formed a long queue. Under the leadership of Chris, they soon came to the school grounds. There were dozens of large black carriages parked here. Like a horse-drawn carriage, the carriage can accommodate seven or eight adults, and if it is a child, ten people are more than enough.


    "Get in the car." Chris pursed her lips and smiled.


    The drivers of these carriages are all young people wearing standard soft armor, including the young man in standard soft armor who brought Du Dian here.


    "Dian, come here." Macon greeted Du Dian in front of a carriage.


    Du Dian took a look and walked over.


    In the carriage, besides Macon, two other children lived in the same room as him. Obviously, under Macon''s call, they all got together and were ready to take care of each other in the next test. After all, the people in the same room are the most trustworthy.


    "Hey, the curtains here are all sewn." Macon was about to lift the curtain and look out and immediately noticed this.


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    Du Di''s heart suddenly felt a little bad. Could it be that the venue for this test... is outside the giant wall?


    ...


    ...


    With the slightly swaying carriage, and the sound of iron hoofs trampling on the ground, Du Dian closed his eyes, silently listening and calculating. It has been twenty minutes since he left the school grounds. At first, he could hear some passers-by outside the carriage. The noise outside gradually quieted down, and it was obvious that the carriage had entered a remote place, and it was silent along the way.


    After the silence lasted for half an hour, the speed of the carriage gradually stopped.


    After it stopped completely, Du Dian slowly opened his eyes, and his fingers moved slightly to calculate, "Twenty-eight turns, three shortstops in the middle, it should be checked, the route should be west..."


    He repeatedly recalled the route he felt earlier in his mind. The speed of the carriage was very fast, so the feeling was very obvious when turning, and he could feel whether it was a left or right turn.


    If Chrissy knew what Du Dian was thinking at this moment, she would be dumbfounded, although it is not difficult to do this, as long as you pay attention, other children can do it too. However, from the moment they entered the carriage, the psychological oppression caused by the black closed environment and the pressure brought by the initial test made all the children feel uneasy and worried in their hearts. How could they still have the mind to calm down and pay attention to these? Calm down in cruel horror!


    Most importantly, this calmness comes to a child!


    With a click, the carriage was pulled away, and Du Dian immediately knew that this time it was not an inspection, but reached the final destination!


    All the children quickly got down from the carriages and eagerly looked at the place where they were about to live for ten days. The next moment, all the children were stunned.


    It turned out to be... a desert!


    That''s right, a desert with only grains of sand!!


    Survive ten days in the desert?!


    All children want to spit blood.


    Du Di''an jumped from the carriage and saw this endless hot and dry desert, he couldn''t help sighing deeply. Sure enough, the "simple" that Tob said could never be that "simple"!


    "Children!" Chris clapped her palms and attracted the attention of all the children, with a charming smile on her face, "Next, you will have to survive here, if anyone can''t hold on, just stay on the ground Draw an "x" sign and you will be rescued. Of course, being rescued also means elimination. Likewise, it also means that your family must pay for the special training costs during this period. I believe you already know about this cost. If you don¡¯t want your family to go bankrupt, Just come on! "


    Having said that, she blinked and said, "I wish you all the best of luck. By the way, this first test is the easiest." After speaking, she turned and jumped onto a black horse nearly three meters high. , This black horse has pure hair, and it is the same breed as the horse that Du Di''an has seen pulling carts for hunters.


    This also represents the identity of Chris, who is likely to be a hunter!


    Du Di''an squinted, quietly watching Chris galloping away with the whip, and the rest of the carriages also turned around, keeping the formation and galloping away, raising the sky of sand and dust, gradually disappearing of all the children...


    For a time, in this huge desert, there were only more than 300 children present.


    "This, how to live!"


    "This is pure murder!!"


    "I knew it wasn''t that simple..."


    After Chris and the others led the carriage away, the children present immediately shouted angrily.


    "Everyone! Everyone!" a tall, sturdy child in the crowd said loudly: "We have to unite and find a source of water first. As long as we find a source of water, we will be able to live, and the strength of unity is great!" This child is very adaptable. quick.


    When the other children heard his words, they stopped complaining. Some responded to his words, while others began to think about how to survive in the next ten days. In the previous three-month special training, everyone I have long learned not to reason with Taub because you use your mouth and the other party uses your fists!


    "Dian, let''s go with them," Macon said to Du Di''an that since the first day of drying the bed, he has gradually become accustomed to asking Du Di''an''s opinion. In their room, although he is The most appealing, the most authoritative is undoubtedly Du Dian.


    "No, the four of us will do." Du Di''an shook his head without thinking.


    Macon said in amazement, "Why?"


    The other two children are also puzzled. Unity is powerful. This is the absolute truth, and the content taught in the course is also, in a harsh environment, only by unity can there be the hope of survival!


    However, the prestige that Du Di''an had built up in the past three months prevented them from questioning immediately.


    "If there are many people, it is easy to find water sources, but this is a desert, not a jungle or a swamp. The water sources are scarce here. Even if they are found, they can only supply the needs of some people, and will eventually collapse due to the uneven distribution of resources." Du Di''an said straight.


    Macon and the other two children were stunned for a moment and immediately woke up.


    "Let''s go, a lot of time has been wasted." Du Dian looked at it, found a direction, and walked first.

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    Macon and the other two children looked at each other and immediately followed Du Dian.


    At this time, the other children were also divided into small groups one after another. Most of them were like Du Di''an. They used a few people in their room as a small team, and some were medium-sized teams composed of two or three small teams. The rest of the hesitant people in the group joined the person who first proposed unity, forming a large team of nearly 100 people.


    In the desert, more than 300 people gradually spread out like swarms of ants.


    "Why are you walking this way, the sun is so big!" Macon raised his hand to cover his eyes, unable to open his eyes from the sun. He had been here for less than half an hour, and he was already sweaty and hot.


    "There seem to be the least number of people in the same direction as us." Another brown-haired and thin child observed the surroundings and said, his name is Sham, one of the four in the dormitory. A person who can fold bedding.


    "Even if you avoid competition, you don''t have to bask in the sun!" Macon said with a wry smile.


    Du Di''an said in a low voice: "The climate of the desert has a large temperature contrast during the day and night. Although it is now the black and dead season, which lasts the longest among the three seasons, it is also the season with the highest temperature, but at night, the temperature here will still drop to The temperature at the beginning of the black snow season, it is afternoon, we are going in the west direction, the sun will keep drying here, and at night, the sand in this direction will be warmer than other directions.¡±


    When the three heard Du Dian''s solemn explanation, they were a little stunned. Macon said with a bitter face: "Even if you consider the problem of heat preservation at night, you don''t have to stand in the sun now, it''s easy to lack water, and the gain is not worth the loss. Besides, how do you know that the temperature in the desert will drop at night, I feel My feet are on fire, how can the temperature here drop!"


    Sham and another child named Zach are also curious, how can it be cold at night in such a hot place?


    "You will know at night." Du Di''an did not explain the heat absorption and heat dissipation effects of sand grains. The knowledge involved was not taught in the course, and it would inevitably lead to doubts, and the concept of heat absorption and heat dissipation was very important to them. Can''t even understand it.


    "The water source can be found. The only thing we need to pay attention to is that we must not get sick!" Du Di''an solemnly warned the three of Macon.


    Hearing his firm words, Macon, Sham, and Zach was a little surprised, but they had already convinced Du Di''an, and they didn''t question them, they were just extremely curious. In this desert full of sand, how could Du Di''an assert that they would be able to find them? water source?


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    It didn''t take long for the four of Du Di''an to go straight into the desert, completely separated from the other teams around them, which made Mei, Sha, and Zha nervous, but at this point, they could only continue to believe in Du Di''an. Never let them down.


    "Remember what was taught in the course, how to find water in the desert?" Du Dian stopped and looked around the road ahead.


    Mei, Sha, and Zha looked at each other. Macon said: "I remember first looking for a cool sandy place and digging under the sand. Usually, the water source can be found."


    Du Di''an raised his finger and pointed to a place ahead, where there was a raised sand slope, the side was not exposed to the sun, and because of the angle, even if the sun was in the east in the morning, it could not be found, and it would only shine for a short time at noon, "Go there and have a look." He stepped on the sand, walked over first, touched the sand here, and it was cool.


    When Mei, Sha, and Zha saw this, they couldn''t help but be overjoyed and squatted down to prepare to plan.


    Du Dian waved his hands and said, "Tang your hands first, don''t scratch your hands by the stones inside." After that, he tore a piece of fabric from his cuffs, wrapped his hands around him, and squatted down to start digging sand.


    Macon smiled: "It''s still as thoughtful as you think."


    The three of them followed suit, tearing off the fabric, wrapping their hands around them, and squatting down to plan sand.


    I have to say that the three-month endurance training has greatly improved the physical strength of the four children. Walking for four or five miles under the scorching sun, there is still room for sand digging at this moment. However, this is also a gamble. They will become dangerous by digging out the water source, and the remaining physical strength may not be able to support them to find the next place where there may be a water source.


    Therefore, even though Du Di''an was a little nervous, especially after digging to a depth of more than half a meter, he still didn''t touch the wet sand, and the four of them sank slightly.


    "It''s over, change to another place." Du Di''an stopped decisively. With this trend, it is possible to touch the wet sand at least one meter deep, and to get water, at least three meters deep, this It''s still the most optimistic situation. It can only be said that this place is not good.


    "I''ve been digging so much, so I just gave up?" Macon said in disbelief.


    Du Dian said with a sullen face: "You can''t bet your hope on it once, follow me and move on!" After speaking, he no longer had any nostalgia, and turned around and stepped forward.


    Macon and Zach were a little reluctant to give up. Sham stood up and said, "Let''s go, Dean is right, you can''t bet your hope on it once." After that, he followed in Du Dian''s footsteps.


    Macon and Zach sighed, only to shake the sand from their knees and follow.


    However, when God closes a door for you, he also releases a dog for you. Not long after Du Di''an and the four left the digging pit, Zach, who was at the back, screamed in vain, jumped half a meter high, his face paled, and hurried towards Du Di''an.


    Du Di''an, Macon, and Sham looked back, and couldn''t help screaming in fright. They saw a snake nearly two meters long drilled out of the sand, with yellow-brown snake skin all over its body, and its scales reflecting icy cold under the sunlight. Lustrous, under this scorching high temperature, the three of them only felt chills everywhere.


    "Run!" Du Di''an first came back to his senses, roared, turned, and ran.


    Mei and Sha reacted and hurriedly shouted to keep up.


    With a thud, in vain, Macon ran so fast that he stumbled on his feet and threw himself on the sand.


    Du Dian, who was running at the front, heard the movement behind him and couldn''t help but look back, and immediately saw Macon fall to the ground. Ten meters behind him, the yellow-scaled snake twisted and swam, and the situation became precarious. Gritting his teeth sharply, he turned and rushed towards Macon.


    Sham and Zach were stunned for a moment, and they also noticed the fallen Macon, their expressions changed, and they looked at the twisting yellow-scaled snake again, their expressions became extremely ugly, and they hesitated for a while.


    At this moment, Du Dian had rushed to Macon, grabbed his arm, and roared: "Stand up!"


    Macon took advantage of his strength to get up and looked back. The yellow-scaled snake was already two or three meters behind him. It only took one jump to jump. Does snake fast?


    With a swoosh, the yellow-scaled snake slammed towards Macon, with sharp fangs in its large mouth.

 The Alchemist

    At this moment, a gray shadow flashed in vain, hitting the yellow-scaled snake and knocking it down on the sand.


    "Run!" Du Dian growled.


    Macon came back to his senses and ran in a hurry.


    Du Di''an looked at the yellow-scaled snake who was twisting and chasing after him. He turned and ran without turning his head. At the same time, he clenched the thick-line jacket twisted into a rope in his hand. He was able to shoot down the yellow-scaled snake before with the help of the jacket.


    Whoosh!


    Du Dian quickly surpassed Macon and ran to the front. His endurance training long-distance running performance was the first in the dormitory.


    After running for hundreds of meters, Du Dian looked back but saw that behind the last Macon, the yellow-scaled snake had disappeared. He should have known that the hunting failed, so he decisively gave up. After all, animals that have survived in such a harsh environment often like to hunt with one hit, and consuming their physical strength to hunt down their prey is undoubtedly the stupidest way to hunt.


    Du Di''an breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Don''t run away, I didn''t chase after him."


    Macon, Sha, and Zha were stunned for a moment, and then they noticed that the yellow-scaled snake in the back was not chasing, and was immediately relieved. Thirsty and hot.


    "It scared me to death." Zach patted his chest with lingering fears.


    "Take a rest, I''m exhausted." Sham gasped.


    Macon was a little shocked. Hearing the words of the two, he suddenly looked up at Du Dian. He gritted his teeth slightly and said to Du Dian: "Dian, you saved my life this time, what will happen in the future..."


    "Speak less." Du Dian patted him on the shoulder, "Save your energy, everyone, don''t stop, the snake is likely to continue chasing in the sand, and this place has not left its hunting range, and it''s getting late, We must find the water source as soon as possible, otherwise it will be difficult to survive tonight." After that, he continued to lead the way.


    Macon looked at his back, gritted his teeth slightly, and followed.


    Zach and Sham looked at each other and recalled their cowardice when they hesitated before. They bowed their heads in shame, said nothing, and followed Du Di''an silently.


    Several people followed the sand road and continued westward. The road was full of sand grains and dry clods. This made Mei, Sha, and Zha wonder if they had chosen the wrong direction. If they changed the direction, they could find it. water source?


    However, under Du Di''an''s insistence, he did not change his direction in the end.


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    By dusk, several people were already exhausted, sweating profusely all over their bodies, their faces flushed from the sun, and their traveling speed was reduced to one-tenth of the speed when they first arrived in the desert, almost at the speed of a turtle.


    "Found it!" In vain, Du Dian''s voice sounded in front.


    Mei, Sha, and Zha''s faces were numb, like corpses. When they heard this, they seemed to come back to life immediately, and hope burst out in their dry eyes.


    "Where?" Macon asked hastily.


    Du Di''an raised his hand, and there was a small soil slope in front of him. Not far from the soil slope, there were some dry green grass and cacti, which were very common plants in the desert.


    "Plants, they are plants!!" Mei, Sha, and Zha suddenly became excited.


    There was also a smile on Du Di''an''s face, and he said: "Let''s start digging, there must be a water source under the plants!" After that, he stepped forward first, came to one of the green grasses and started digging, and instructed: "Be careful, There might be something else lurking here."


    When the three of Macon heard this, the excitement on their faces suddenly cooled, and they looked around nervously.


    It didn''t take long for Du Di''an to dig out the moist sand under the green grass, and after digging for another half a meter, he finally saw the water source, but the water source was extremely rare and mixed with sand.


    "How can this be taken?" The three of Macon were dumbfounded.


    Du Di''an didn''t speak, shook off the coat that he had beaten the yellow-scaled snake before, jumped down and took out a handful of water mixed with sand, put it in the coat, then twisted the coat, connected it with his mouth, and quickly, along with the coat The water filtered by the wool ran down as he tightened his coat.


    After an afternoon of thirst, this simple filtered water is simply delicious.


    After taking a few sips, Du Dian didn''t continue, but licked his lips with water, then climbed up and said, "Don''t drink too much at one time, just keep the basic consumption of your body."


    The three of Macon''s eyes showed admiration, and they learned Du Di''an''s method, holding the sand mixed with water into their jackets and filtering them for drinking.


    "This grass root should be edible." Du Di''an pulled out the cluster of green grass, looked at the grassroots covered with wet soil, kneaded the wet soil on it, broke it off, and saw that there was no colored juice flowing out of it, Immediately, he bit one in his mouth and chewed it lightly. A faint sweetness filled his mouth, and it was a bit jerky. After chewing it carefully, he swallowed it.


    The three of Macon saw that Du Dian was chewing with relish, and also broke the grassroots and ate it.


    "so bitter!"


    "It''s unpalatable!"


    Zach and Sham gave a wry smile, but they chewed and swallowed.


    Du Di''an looked at the sky and said, "Let''s spend the night here tonight, you can pick up some dry wood and burn a fire at night. In addition, the four of us have to take turns on duty every night. Whoever comes first today will be on duty first. Go to sleep and refresh yourself."


    Macon said, "I''ll come tonight. If you go to bed, we don''t know what to do."


    Du Di''an nodded and said, "Then go to rest, Zach finds dry wood, and Sham builds a shelter with me and finds some rocks." With his arrangement, several people began to get busy.


    ...


    ...


    On the outer edge of the desert, there is a solitary tavern.


    Under the erosion of wind and sand, the tavern was dilapidated, and the windows and doors were repeatedly repaired with wooden planks. At this moment, two figures, a man and a woman, we''re sitting in the tavern, drinking cold wheat beer.


    "Tell me, how many of the three hundred and sixty people can survive tonight?" Kris lightly fiddled with the ice cubes in the wooden cup with a dagger, smiling authentically.


    Taub smiled lightly and said, "It''s more than you think."


    "Really?" Chris raised her eyebrows and teased, "Would you like to make a bet?"


    "How to bet?" Tob was very interested.


    "Just bet on how many people will stay after ten days." Chris squinted and said, "I bet two hundred."


    Taub smiled and said, "Then I''ll bet three hundred."


    "Oh?" Chris squinted at him, "You seem to be quite confident in your students, but this time you are sure to lose."


    After Tob finished drinking the beer in his cup, he said indifferently, "Why do you see it?"


    "Giggle..." Kris covered her lips with the back of her hand and chuckled, "Don''t you know that ten years ago, this desert was the territory of the Ryan family, and it was one of the six most prosperous places in the business district. , but it was destroyed by the evil alchemist, not only the Ryan family was destroyed, but this territory was completely desertified and became a forbidden area under the evil power of the alchemist."


    Taub said indifferently: "I knew this ten years ago because I was there at the time."


    Chris giggled and said, "But you don''t know that although the evil alchemist was killed by the Holy See of Light, other alchemists now think that the evil left by the alchemist still exists in this desert. The power is quietly gathered here, but they don''t know that their small movements have long been seen by the Holy See of Light."


    Tuobu''s face changed suddenly, "What do you mean?!"


    "This time, the Holy See of Light is going to eliminate the alchemists here, but they are secretive. If they send light knights over, it will inevitably cause suspicion. Therefore, as usual, this place is still used as an assessment site for scavengers. Bait, come to lure them, I believe those alchemists will never miss such a good opportunity in vain!" Chris said with a smile.

 Chapter 21: Night Raid

    Tuobu''s pupils shrank, he slapped the counter with a slap, and said coldly, "You actually use my students as bait?"


    Chris shrugged slightly, "I''m not so capable, and we are also old acquaintances. I still understand your temper. This time the arrangement is decided by the above, and we can only obey."


    Tuobu said angrily: "But you can''t let a group of children be the bait. You know that there are alchemists lurking here, and you let a group of children come over to lure them. This is the behavior of the Holy See of Light?!"


    Chris''s face changed slightly, and she said in a low voice: "It is a big sin to talk about the Holy See of Light in private, so don''t make a fool of yourself! Besides, if you can capture the alchemist, you will also give these children a credit, and wait for them in the future. Whether it¡¯s being eliminated, joining the guards, or being qualified to stay and become a scavenger, this feat is a valuable asset to them, and it¡¯s not that easy to build a merit usually!¡±


    "Hmph, so I have to thank them?" Tob sneered.


    Chris said helplessly: "Whether you are thankful or not, this is a fact. Besides, if you change the assessment venue this year, you will be shocked. This group of alchemists is very well-connected, and there may be hidden people in our army. Their eyeliner, although this group of children is still a little tender, but they graduate after three years, whether they are joining the guards or scavengers, they may face alchemists. At that time, they were fighters on the front line. , no one can protect them, this is also a valuable experience for them!"


    Tuobu frowned slightly, snorted coldly, handed the wooden cup to the old man behind the counter, and said, "Lao Luo, have another cup."


    "Seeing how angry you are, I''ll give you more ice." The old man behind the counter laughed.


    Tob suffocated, sullen his head and said nothing.


    Night is coming.


    As the sun went down, the temperature in the desert immediately dropped, the heat preservation effect of the sand was extremely poor, and the heat quickly dissipated. At this time, Du Dian and Sham had built a fire pit with a few stones, and the dead and old plants were burned in it.


    The method of ignition is naturally the most primitive way of drilling wood to make fire.


    "So hungry" Zach touched his stomach and looked at Du Dian.


    Du Dian leaned against the fire, closed his eyes, and said, "Boil it for a while, ten days will pass soon, and you will be hungry faster when you talk."


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    Zach smiled bitterly and closed his eyes.


    Macon sat by the fire and said with a smile, "Sleep well, you won''t be hungry when you fall asleep."


    "It''s hard to live when you''re hungry and cold." Sham tightened his clothes and leaned closer to the fire.


    Macon smiled slightly, picked up firewood from time to time and threw it into the fire pit, remembering Du Dian''s instructions, and always keep the fire light to avoid wild animals approaching.


    It was late at night, the temperature was lower, and a gust of wind blew from time to time. Even sitting by the fire, Macon felt shivering with cold. His legs shook slightly, causing his body to generate heat. However, the frequent shaking made him suddenly feel like urinating. come.


    He looked at the three Du Di''an who were already asleep, got up and came to the sand on the side, unbuttoned his pants, and was about to pee, but in vain, a dry palm stretched out in the dark and pinched his throat.


    Macon''s pupils contracted, his heart was beating violently, his eyes were almost split with fear, and a wrinkled face appeared in the darkness, looking at him sullenly, with a very slight hoarse voice: "Dear , don''t call."


    The hairs on Macon''s body stood up, and he wanted to call for help immediately, but he opened his mouth, but his throat was almost shattered. Voice, under this strong fear, Du Dian''s always calm face appeared in his mind in vain, his eyes opened suddenly, and the soles of his feet kicked back hard.


    He kicked the soft sand under his heels and splashed against the fire.


    not enough!


    The distance is not enough! !


    Macon was a little desperate.


    At this time, the owner of the withered palm also noticed Macon''s call for help. A chill flashed across his gloomy eyes. He raised his other hand. A dagger!


    Whoosh!


    Stab straight!


    With a bang, when Macon''s mind was completely blank, a stone flew over in vain and hit the dagger. At the same time, Du Di''an roared: "There are enemies, get up!"


    Under his roar, Zach and Sham immediately woke up, grabbed the stone on their head, and looked nervous.


    Du Di''an stared at this thin but rickety figure in the dark. He has always had a light sleep, especially in such a dangerous environment. On his face, he immediately woke up. The first picture he opened his eyes, he saw where Macon was sitting. There was no figure of him. When he turned his head to look, he happened to see the thrilling scene just now, and immediately grabbed it without thinking. The stone next to the fire smashed, but I didn''t expect it to hit.


    "Damn it!" The rickety figure was an old man, covered in a black robe, the dagger held in his right hand fell to the ground, his wrist trembled slightly, and the severe pain caused anger in his heart, and pushed away the struggling man. Macon took out a green bottle from his chest, opened the mouth of the bottle, and green smoke floated from the bottle. He pointed in the direction of Du Di''an and blew a big mouth.


    Green smoke drifted immediately.


    Du Di''an''s face changed, and he hurriedly covered his nose, wanting to remind Zach and Sham, but the green mist had floated to the front and could not speak.


    With a plop, Macon, who was closest to the rickety old man, was enveloped in green mist and fell down immediately.


    Du Dian''s pupils shrank, and he hurriedly fell down and pretended to be dead.


    Two more thumps, Du Dian didn''t need to look to know, most of them were also inhaled by Zach and Sham, but they didn''t know whether they passed out of a coma or died of poisoning.


    His heart was beating wildly, and his heart was full of tension and doubts. Could this be one of the assessments? If this is the case, he believes that except for those big groups, other small groups will be eliminated!


    Could it be that the purpose of this assessment is to unite everyone?


    Du Di''an''s thoughts turned quickly, and he couldn''t help but regret it. Perhaps the meaning of the above is not to let them survive for ten days, but to see if they are united?


    "Damn it!" At this moment, Du Di''an heard the footsteps of the rickety old man and walked towards him, and immediately knew that he wanted to avenge his own stone attack, and cried inwardly.


    "Wasting a bottle of my lost soul potion, damn it!" Just listening to the voice, Du Di''an knew that he was speaking with gritted teeth, and immediately raised a heart, and his palm quietly grabbed a handful of sand, ready to wait for the opportunity.


    At this moment, Du Dian felt that the sole of his foot was caught by a dry palm. There was no flesh on the palm, and his ankle was a little painful when he pinched it. sand thrown out. However, the rickety old man didn''t seem to have any intention of killing him, he just grabbed his ankle and dragged him forward.


    Du Di''s heart sank, knowing that he was going to take himself to his lair to solve it.


    attack?


    Or continue to wait for the opportunity?

 Chapter 22: Biochemical Transformation

    Du Di''an slowly opened his eyes, and through the dim light of the fire, he saw the rickety old man with his back to him, dragging him towards the darkness ahead.


    His eyes flickered slightly, and he gave up the idea of sneak attack. Sand hitting the opponent''s back would not have any attack effect, but would lose the only chance for sneak attack. At this moment, he had been dragged two or three meters away and could not be caught. The stones by the fire pit, and even if they can be caught, the stones by the fire pit are so hot that they must be thrown instantly as before, otherwise they have to burn their palms.


    "Can''t go to his nest." Du Di''an knew that he was facing great danger at the moment, and his mind was spinning rapidly. Before entering the other''s nest, he must find a way to escape. After all, no one knows how many people there are in the other''s nest. This one is in front of him. He can''t handle it. If he is brought into the old nest, he can only be reduced to fish and meat on the anvil, and he can be slaughtered!


    At this time, the rickety old man dragged Du Dian to the place where Macon was going to pee, and bent down to pick up the dagger that fell on the ground.


    Du Di was overjoyed, his eyes fell on the stone he threw next to him, and he quietly reached out to touch it. The stone''s thermal insulation effect was average. Although it was still hot at the moment, he could barely endure it. He grabbed the stone and looked at the rickety old man. The back of his head, he violently exerted force on his abdomen, raised his upper body strength, and threw it fiercely.


    With a bang, the stone did not hit the back of his head, but on his back. After all, he was lying down. Although the distance was extremely close, the angle was still deviated.


    Du Di''an''s face was ugly, but he didn''t have time to be annoyed. He hurriedly kicked the soles of his feet and broke away the other''s palm.


    The rickety old man was hit in the back, screamed in pain, and almost stumbled. He looked back and immediately saw Du Di''an getting up and running away. He didn''t expect that he would be planted on a child twice in a row, so annoyed. His chest was about to explode with anger, and he said savagely, "I''m going to kill you!!" He raised his hand and waved, and an incredible scene appeared. I saw a very long black shadow suddenly shot out of his large sleeve robe.


    With a bang, it hit Du Dian on the back.


    Du Dian immediately fell to the ground, and there was a piercing pain on his back. The pain made him almost faint, but his heart was at a loss. At his own speed, the other party should not catch up so quickly.


    He reluctantly looked back, his pupils suddenly tightened.


    He saw a scene that was completely beyond his imagination. He saw that from the sleeves of the rickety old man, a snake-like touch was stretched out. It was about the thickness of a baby''s wrist and three or four meters long. It completely opened his black cuffs. Under the flickering firelight, Du Dian could see it very clearly. The root of the touch body was connected to the other party''s shoulder!


    The most terrifying thing was that there were blood-red veins on the rickety old man''s withered arm, just like blood vessels bulging on the surface of the skin, full of strangeness and hideousness.


    This made Du Di''an''s mind unable to help but have four words: "Biochemical transformation!"


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    Born in a scientific family, Du Dian knows that biochemical transformation is real, but in the old days, it was a taboo experiment, and any biochemical human experiment was illegal. It only appeared during World War II, when it was used as a weapon of war.


    These are what he said when his father and his sister were chatting. He didn''t expect to see this incredible scene in a world where technology has not yet entered the age of steam!


    Kaka!


    When Du Di''an was shocked, the rickety old man groaned in pain. The base of the contact body on his right arm grew abruptly by a few centimeters. A little dry again.


    The rickety old man gritted his teeth, stared at Du Di''an, and said sternly: "Little devil, I won''t kill you so easily, I will cut you open bit by bit and become my experiment!" Step by step towards Du Dian, and the touch on his arm twisted into the cuffs along his shoulders and entered his large black robe. If the sleeves were not broken, looking from the outside, there was no Not the slightest bit different.


    Du Dian''s face was pale, and at this moment he naturally knew that this was by no means a test for scavengers, but a real danger. He wanted to get up, but the severe pain in his back made him unable to stand up, and the rickety old man took out the Green fog, although he tried his best to hold his breath, but after a long time, he still smelled a little bit, just smelling a little odor, he felt his limbs go weak.


    "Do you still want to run?" The rickety old man looked at him hideously, grabbed with a big hand, grabbed Du Di''an''s hair, and dragged him away.


    Du Di''an held his wrist tightly in pain, and it didn''t take long for the rickety old man to stop suddenly, and the surroundings were dark, but with the faint starlight in the sky, Du Di''an saw a deep pit here.


    "Go in!" The rickety old man kicked Du Di''an.


    Du Di''an rolled down suddenly, and felt that he hit the stairs along the way. His back, wrists, and arms were in great pain when they bumped on the stairs. He rolled about seven or eight meters to the end. Dim yellow light, this is an underground secret room.


    At this time, the rickety old man climbed down the vertical ladder.


    Du Di''an looked up, but there was a wooden board above the wooden ladder, which sealed the hole above. He suddenly knew why he met this rickety old man in this vast desert. It turned out to be the shelter he chose, and it happened to be not far from the place where the rickety old man lived. Most of the time, when they were here during the day, they were already alarmed by this rickety old man. old man.


    He smiled bitterly in his heart, thinking about it too, the desert plants here are dense, and it is the place with the most abundant water sources nearby, which is indeed suitable as a shelter.


    After the rickety old man went down the stairs, he ignored Du Dian, but quickly came to a workbench not far away, and took out a small bottle from the drawer inside, which contained scarlet pills, he poured out a few, One mouthful, pour hot water from a metal bottle next to it and drink it.


    Du Di''an couldn''t help looking at the underground room, and immediately saw something that made his face ugly. On the cabinets next to him, there were some large glass bottles with some terrifying things soaked in them, some were human palms, and some were women''s heads. , and there are the lobes and the heart.


    "Little devil, don''t look, I''ll find you a big container later and put you in it." The rickety old man noticed Du Di''an''s eyes and said sullenly.


    Du Di''an looked ugly and said, "You are the one who sold your soul to the devil as the Holy See said?"


    The rickety old man sneered and said, "Devil? The Holy See of Light will only use the creator and the devil to fool the world. When I finish the experiment, I will be the creator!"


    "What experiment?" Du Dian asked. Naturally, he didn''t really have the mind to care about this, but wanted to use his words to buy some time, wait for his physical strength to recover a little, and then find a way to get out.


    The ricketed old man sneered: "You don''t understand, the poor foolish people enslaved by the Holy See of Light, when I take a rest, I will send you to see your God of Light, don''t try to leave, do you see this?" , took out an object from the drawer, it was actually a small crossbow.


    Du Di''an''s face changed, his heart froze, but he did not give up, gritted his teeth and said: "What is the creator, it is ridiculous to use this kind of thing to kill people!"


    "Hmph, how can you understand the wisdom of the Creator." The rickety old man sneered, "The great alchemy will forge immortality. You are honored to be the material in my experiment."


    "Alchemy?" Du Dian was startled.


    When watching the super chip, he happened to see some introductions to "alchemy". It can be said that this is the early prototype of chemistry, originated in Egypt, mainly to convert base metals into gold. Once there is an alchemy who can do it At this point, he will immediately become a national treasure-level figure who can call the wind and call the rain.


    The ultimate goal of alchemy is to create the "Sage''s Stone", which is said to be a treasure that can make people immortal!


    In history, there have been many great figures who were involved in the practice of alchemy, including the famous physicist Newton, who was an alchemy enthusiast.


    "Are you an alchemist?" Du Dian looked at the rickety old man in surprise, "Isn''t alchemy making gold?"


    The rickety old man narrowed his eyes and said, "I didn''t expect you to know quite a lot, but our alchemy is divided into two groups, one is to study basic substances, to create "Sage''s Stone", and to try to live forever. The other group is like me, who study living matter, create "life", and become the creator! "

 Chapter 23: The Jedi Strikes Back

    Du Di''an suddenly understood why his arm became like that, most of which he used his own body to conduct a life structure experiment. From the results, it was obvious that the experiment failed. Although the twisted body on the arm can listen to nerve signals to act, But every time you act, you will pay a corresponding price, otherwise, just relying on the power of the mutant touch body, in this era of cold weapons, it is definitely a big killer!


    The rickety old man seemed to have rested, and said coldly to Du Di''an: "Go there and lie down." While speaking, the dry palm touched the small crossbow, and it seemed that as long as Du Di''an refused, he would shoot immediately.


    Du Di''an''s face changed, he gritted his teeth and stood up. At this moment of life and death, his mind was a little messy. He took a deep breath and wanted to keep calm, but it was difficult for anyone to maintain calm in such a gloomy and desperate environment. Trembling, he moved at the slowest speed to the place pointed by the rickety old man. There was a worktable, like an operating table. There were many cutting knives on the side, and some knives were still stained with unwashed blood.


    Du Di''an suddenly heard movement from the left side, looked sideways, his face changed immediately, and saw that in an iron cage, there were more than a dozen large snakes twisting in it, among them there were the yellow ones like the ones he had seen during the day. Scale snakes, obviously, these are the materials that the other party grabs to carry out the life structure experiment.


    The rickety old man did not urge Du Di''an, but just looked at him quietly, as if the hunter was quietly watching the prey do the final dying struggle. When he saw Du Di''an''s face changing color, the corner of his mouth slightly raised a cruel smile.


    At this time, Du Dian had come to the workbench.


    "See the chain on it, tie it yourself." The rickety old man ordered.


    Du Dian looked at the chains fixed on the workbench, knowing that most of them were tools that the other party used to bind other experimenters before. His eyes flickered slightly, but he still grabbed a chain and wrapped it around his wrist.


    There was a sneer on the rickety old man''s face, ready to wait for Du Di''an to tie himself up, then get up and cut him.


    Bang!


    In vain, Du Dian, who was messing with the chains, squatted down suddenly and shrank under the workbench. At the same time, he swung the chains and hit the iron cage not far from the side. With a bang, there were more than a dozen big snakes sleeping in the cage. , immediately woke up, struggling and twisting in the cage.


    The ricketed old man''s face sank, and he said coldly: "Little devil, I wanted you to die quickly, but you have to be smart, do you think you can escape from here, even if you wear down your body again, I will If you are captured, if you are interested, come out obediently, and I will forgive you one more time!"


    Du Di''an naturally wouldn''t believe his nonsense. He kicked his foot on the iron cage fiercely. With the cover of the workbench, the ricketed old man couldn''t shoot him from that angle. Once the opponent got close, he would have the opportunity to fight with the opponent.


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    Although the rickety old man has a mutant touch, and melee combat is extremely terrifying, his head is a human head after all, and the fatal point is weak, which gives Du Di''an the capital to fight!


    Bang dang, the iron cage was only lightly tied with a lock, not locked. At this moment, under Du Di''an''s kick, the iron cage opened immediately, and a dozen large snakes swam out of the cage quickly, some swimming into the darkness, some towards the dark. The rickety old man swam, but most of them swam towards Du Dian.


    The rickety old man sneered, "I don''t know whether to live or die!"


    The next moment, his smile suddenly stopped, and I saw those big snakes swimming towards Du Dian suddenly turned around as if they had changed their minds and swam to other places, and four or five of them swam towards him.


    "How come?" The rickety old man opened his eyes wide, suddenly thought of something, looked at a table next to him, his face suddenly gloomy, "I even stole the realgar, no wonder I have the courage to open the snake cage."


    Du Dian firmly grasped a bottle of realgar crushed powder in his hand and sprinkled him all over his body. This bottle of realgar powder should have been prepared by the rickety old man when he caught these big snakes. When he noticed the snake cage, he thought of it. realgar powder. After all, although this rickety old man is known as an alchemist, he is essentially just a biological scientist of this era.


    And it is so old that it is impossible to catch these big snakes with bare hands, and can only rely on other things.


    As a result, he soon saw this bottle of realgar powder. Maybe it was because no one came here for too long, and the other party has always lived alone, so the things were placed casually, just right where he passed, so he was sneaked by him. come over.


    "Humph!" The rickety old man snorted coldly, grabbed another set of brown-yellow robes hanging on the wall beside him, and put it on his body. At this moment, the big snakes that were swimming towards him stopped immediately, then twisted their bodies and swam into the surrounding darkness.


    Seeing this scene, Du Dian immediately knew that this robe was mostly sprinkled with realgar powder, which was probably the coat he wore when he went to catch the big snake.


    "Boy, you''d better come out obediently." The rickety old man stared at the workbench with gloomy eyes, his fingers tightly pressed against the crossbow, as long as Du Di''an showed his head a little, he would shoot immediately! Although the other party is just a child, but one after another, he has made a series of changes, which has made him feel threatened, and will not give Du Di''an any chance again!


    Du Dian looked up and looked around the secret room. At present, the only way to survive is to subdue the alchemist, and if you want to subdue the opponent, relying on the dagger in his hand is not enough!


    That''s right, he has a dagger in his hand. This is the cutting tool he grabbed from the workbench when he squatted down just now.


    At this moment, Du Dian suddenly saw that on a counter against the wall on the side, there were some bottles and jars piled up with labels on them, two of which were sulphur and charcoal!


    This is one of the main raw materials of black powder!


    Du Di''an''s eyes lit up, his heart was ecstatic, he looked around in a hurry, but he didn''t see the fire nitrate, and his face changed slightly. Without fire nitrate, the main raw material, it is impossible to make black gunpowder with sulfur and charcoal alone!


    He clenched his fists, it felt like a foot stepped into the door of life, but was pushed back abruptly.


    "Little devil, I know, you have a dagger in your hand, are you ready to fight with me?" The ricketed old man''s voice sounded again, and Du Di''s heart sank, knowing that he had noticed the missing dagger on the workbench, and only listened to him Continue: "Let''s continue to consume like this, I''ll eat something to make up for it, are you hungry?" He said, sneering twice.


    When Du Dian listened to him, he immediately felt that his stomach was hungry all day, and his stomach juice burned.


    However, he was slightly relieved in his heart, at least he still had time to continue to think of ways.


    At this moment, a green mist floated in vain.


    Du Dian''s pupils shrank, and he hurriedly covered his mouth and nose. He didn''t expect the other party to release this thing in this small secret room. Obviously, the other party has an antidote or other countermeasures.


    Du Di''an pinched his nose, his heart pounding wildly, knowing that his time was running out, he didn''t stand up desperately, thinking that the other party might have aimed at his position, and as soon as he stood up, he would be shot.


    He gritted his teeth slightly, clenched his dagger tightly, and looked at the realgar powder in the other hand. Just as he was about to throw it out, he hit the east and west first, but in vain, a flash of light suddenly flashed in his mind.

 Chapter 24: Loneliness

    "Little devil, I see how long you can last!" The rickety old man wore a dark green mask, only showing a pair of gloomy eyes, staring at the workbench, his fingers on the crossbow, ready to shoot Du Di''an who was dying.


    in vain


    Whoosh!


    A shadow suddenly flew out from behind the workbench.


    The ricketed old man instinctively pressed his finger, and with a click, the crossbow arrow shot out, and the short arrow rushed out, but it did not hit the shadow, but was nailed to the wooden cabinet behind.


    At this time, the shadow fell to the feet of the ricketed old man, and it was actually a realgar powder bottle.


    His face changed, and he looked up hurriedly, only to see Du Dian jumping up from the ground, but instead of jumping around the workbench to pounce on him, he turned and jumped to the counter on the side, grabbing the bottles and jars above with both hands. I came across a few bottles and cans, fell to the ground and smashed them, scattering powder all over the place.


    The rickety old man was burning with anger. This was all the experimental materials that he had collected and carefully ground. It was knocked to the ground like this. He gritted his teeth and quickly filled the crossbow arrow, aiming at Du Dian.


    However, in the short time he refilled the crossbow, Du Dian had already retracted back under the workbench again.


    "Damn little devil!!" The rickety old man was so angry that his eyes almost burst into flames, but several misses made him a little bit jealous of Du Dian, and he did not angrily go forward with a crossbow. Speaking of which, he didn''t believe it himself, but he actually felt a threat from this child.


    "I want to see how long you can last!" The rickety old man looked at the green mist that filled the secret room, and his eyes were as cold as frost.


    "Caught!" Du Dian was holding a large glass bottle with half a bottle of sulfur powder in it. At this time, he felt that the oxygen in his lungs was getting less and less, and the suffocation was getting stronger and stronger. Looking around, looking for the fire sickle stone, however, although the things of the ricketed old man are scattered, there is no fire sickle nearby.


    "No fire! No fire!"


    Du Di was a little desperate in his heart. He finally thought of a way, but there was no fire. In vain, he saw the shadow above his head, which was reflected by the oil lamp. In an instant, he suddenly opened his eyes wide and looked at the place where the oil lamp was.


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    No deviation, no deviation, right at the table of the rickety old man.


    The oil lamp, apparently for his work lighting, was not far from it.


    The despair in Du Di''s heart disappeared immediately, and at this time, he felt that his chest was about to explode, hurriedly took off his inner shirt, knotted the hem, and then poured the sulfur in the large glass bottle down the neckline Entering, immediately a full of sulphur powder in his inner shirt bulged, he gritted his teeth, life and death were at stake, and he threw the inner shirt out with a low growl in his heart.


    Whoosh!


    The ricketed old man watched a large group of black shadows fly over, instinctively pulled the trigger again, and the crossbow shot instantly, hitting the corner of his inner shirt. The sharp crossbow bolts penetrated in an instant and were nailed to the wooden cabinet at the rear. But the inner shirt that bulged like a ball fell to the rickety old man. His expression changed, worried about cheating, he hurriedly raised his hand to block it, and with a bang, the inner shirt was blocked by his arm and just fell on the table next to him. superior.


    With a bang, the oil lamp was overturned, and the fire core burned with the overturned oil and water. The oil and water flowed onto the inner shirt and immediately burned.


    When Du Di''an heard the crossbow bolts nailed to the wooden cabinet, he raised his head, knowing that the rickety old man hadn''t filled the second crossbow bolt so quickly for a while, just when he saw the inner shirt burning, his face changed and he hurriedly fell down.


    Bang! ! !


    Suddenly, a thunderous explosion sounded, and several pieces of the wooden board on the top of the secret room collapsed, and a large amount of sand and dust poured down.


    Du Di''an only felt that the worktable in front was knocked over by a huge force and hit him, and the corners were knocked against his ribs. Tears came out of the pain, and he almost fainted.


    At this time, his breath-holding could no longer be maintained. Although he tried his best to restrain himself, he still inhaled a gust of air, which was full of fishy and sulphurous odors.


    At this time, where the top of the head collapsed, the cold wind swept in and rolled out the sulphur and green mist in the air. Du Di''an was paralyzed on the ground, tightened his chest, and inhaled the air very slowly. The previous sulphur exploded, The green mist in the secret room was also washed away a lot. At this moment, it flew into the outside with the dust mist of sulfur. The smell was much lighter.


    After a while, Du Di''an felt that he was barely able to move, and immediately climbed up slowly. The secret room had been blown up, and no one knew when it would completely collapse. He didn''t want to be buried alive by the sand!


    The previous explosion blew out all the oil lamps in the secret room. At this moment, the secret room was like a deep pit in the desert, and it was dark inside.


    Du Dian gritted his teeth slightly, and with the faint starlight, groped towards the rickety old man, bumping his feet along the way, all collapsed wooden cabinets and tables. Relying on the distance and terrain he had previously remembered, he quickly touched the location of the rickety old man. The first thing he touched was the table that was turned over. He groped along the table, and immediately felt a mass of wet and sticky things, and then carefully touched it. Touched, and immediately his face became ugly.


    There was a hard object inside that wet sticky thing, like a bone.


    Although it was in the dark, he seemed to see the terrifying appearance of the rickety old man lying in front of him being blown to pieces. He felt chills everywhere. He didn''t expect the power of this sulphur explosion to be so terrifying. Black powder, the reason why it heats up and explodes is entirely the principle of dust explosion.


    "I killed" Du Di''s heart trembled slightly, this is a human life, although he has seen too many broken and poor, and distorted laws in this world, but killing with his own hands is something he can''t even think about. For a while, I only felt that in the darkness around, there seemed to be the ghost of the other party, staring coldly at him behind the invisible.


    He shivered slightly, gritted his teeth, and secretly said in his heart: "I''m protecting myself, no wonder I, I''m just protecting myself, I didn''t commit a crime." Thinking of this, he suddenly clenched his fists, his heart was full of sadness, the law he obeyed, He has long since disappeared from this world. Even if he commits a crime, who can convict him?


    He smiled bitterly. In this dark pit, in this place where the stars can''t shine, he suddenly felt so lonely, as if he had been forgotten by the whole world. This lonely loneliness gradually made his body tremble. He relaxed, and suddenly he was not so scared. Instead, there was a faint indifference. He silently looked at the dark place of the rickety old man''s body. After a long time, he slowly moved his body, but instead of leaving, he bent down and Explore the ground.


    He''s looking for that crossbow!

 Chapter 25: Alchemys Notes

    While groping, Du Di''an touched the rickety old man''s body again, which was wet and sticky, like thighs and arms, wrapped in crumpled and torn robes. This time, although he was still a little scared in his heart, he wasn''t as nervous as before. Resisting the trembling in his heart, he touched his robe, and suddenly, from the tightly wrinkled fabric, he felt two hard protruding objects.


    He squeezed it, it was extremely hard, and he thought that it was mostly the items that the other party brought with him. He immediately opened the cloth and took out the few things.


    Feeling cold to the touch, he held it up and lit by the starlight, barely able to see clearly, it was actually a scythe.


    Surprised in his heart, he immediately rubbed the fire sickle to light the tinder. Soon, a faint fire light illuminated the darkness. With the light of the fire, he immediately saw what was in front of him. His face turned pale when he saw it, and he saw that the part he had been groping before was the shoulder of the hunched old man. At this moment, the arm was broken from the elbow, and the rib of the inner chest was also blown black and blurred.


    Du Di''an''s heart was beating wildly, and he was a little nervous, for fear that the other party would rush forward in vain. After repeatedly confirming that the other party''s chest did not rise and fall, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then found scattered paper on the ground and set it on fire. Throw it on it and burn it.


    As the fire became bigger, Du Dian immediately saw the appearance of the secret room after the explosion. The previous experimental workbench and various purification equipment all fell to the ground, almost all of them were damaged, and many things were submerged by the collapsed sand and dust. , he took a closer look and immediately found the previous crossbow, but the string of this crossbow was broken and the bow body was also broken, obviously it could no longer be used.


    Du Di''an felt a little distressed and could only give up. He was preparing to burn the place completely with a fire. Suddenly, he saw several books beside the fire. The top one had "Alchemy Life Theory" on the cover.


    Du Di''s heart moved and went forward to pick it up. In addition to the "Alchemy Life Theory" at the top, there are several books below, all of which are books of the "Life" alchemy school, and one of them is a small manual. , There is no name, he opened it and looked, it was actually handwritten with a quill pen.


    "Alchemy diary?" Du Dian was a little surprised, and after looking at the content, it was actually the alchemy diary of the rickety old man.


    "287 years of the giant wall calendar, the black snow season."


    "Today''s experiment is going well. Sure enough, to create life, we still have to use human beings as experimental objects. What a perfect material..."


    Du Dian flipped through it, and there were some records of the experimental process and other events on it. He didn''t read it in detail. After thinking about it, he put the alchemy handbook into his chest. As for the "Alchemy Life Theory" and other books, he simply flipped through it. Next, although the name is very high, it feels similar to primary biology. Although he has never studied biology, at least it is the thinking of modern people, and the common sense that has penetrated into the heart since childhood can roughly judge.


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    He didn''t bring them. These books were too thick to hide and were easily exposed. Judging from the behavior of this rickety old man, alchemy probably won''t have a good reputation in this world, otherwise he wouldn''t hide in this deserted desert to secretly experiment.


    Du Di''an tore the book open and threw it on the flame, and the fire started to burn. He threw the rest of the books on the rickety old man''s body, then found the oil pot that fell on the ground, and poured the kerosene inside the rickety old man''s body. On the corpse, and everywhere in the secret room, he has calmed down a lot at this moment, and the first thing that comes to mind is to destroy the corpse!


    When the fire spread, Du Di''an climbed up the wooden ladder that had rolled down earlier. The wooden ladder was far away and was not broken. He pushed the top plank hard, climbed out, and looked back. At a glance, from the collapsed gap, he vaguely saw the reflection of the fire, and suddenly there was a trace of melancholy in his heart, he sighed, turned around, and ran along the same path.


    When he returned to the previous place, there was only a little bit of sparks in the burning fire pit, but no three of Macon were seen around.


    Du Di was startled, didn''t care to sit down and rest, dragged his tired body to search everywhere on the ground, and soon saw the traces of dragging, and immediately chased after the sand marks, but saw a dark shadow moving in the distance, His heart tightened, and he quietly touched it.


    After getting close, Du Dian saw that it was Zach who was dragging Macon and Sham.


    "He''s not in a coma?" Du Di''an was startled, and then he thought that Zach had always been cautious, and most of the time he played dead like himself, but he played dead to escape, but he almost lost his life.


    Seeing Zach dragging Sham and Macon with difficulty, Du Di was slightly warm, rolled the Alchemy Notes around his trouser legs, tied it with a cloth belt, and walked out.


    "Who!" Zach was startled when he heard the movement, let go of Sham and Macon, and bent down nervously to grab two handfuls of sand.


    "It''s me." Du Dian appeared.


    When Zach heard Du Di''an''s voice, he was shocked, and couldn''t help but say in surprise: "You''re back? Are you all right? Did that monster treat you well?"


    Hearing this, Du Dian immediately knew that most of him had secretly seen his fight with the ricketed old man before, and saw the other party''s mutated shoulder, and said: "It''s okay, I ran away by luck, let''s get out of here, so as not to be chased again. Come." After speaking, he grabbed Macon''s arm, saw that he was still breathing, and immediately knew that the green mist was not a lethal poison, and he was relieved.


    Zach''s face turned pale, and he couldn''t help but look behind Du Dian, as if there were monsters staring in the dark. He shivered, grabbed Sham, and hurriedly said: "Run quickly, don''t be caught." Said After that, he quickly dragged Sham and ran forward.


    Du Dian dragged Sham and followed behind. This place with abundant water obviously couldn''t stay longer. Although the rickety old man was dead, it was hard to guarantee that no other alchemists would come over. He sighed in his heart and had to continue. Looking for a water source, I hope that the next water source will not encounter these alchemists who refuse to be bound by the law.


    ...


    ...


    After half an hour.


    Above the rickety old man''s secret room, several shadows appeared. One of the short shadows took out a scythe, lit a hooded oil lamp, and looked down from the collapsed gap by the firelight, and immediately saw the burning mess inside the secret room.


    "It has been killed." One of the graceful figures seemed to see something, and the silver bell-like voice was full of gloomy cold, and said: "Destroy the corpse and destroy the traces, burn down the den, it seems that we do not want us to trace any clues."


    "Such ruthless means are mostly done by other devil apostles. These beasts are not spared by me!" Another burly figure said gloomily.


    The former short shadow said: "These alchemists have already sold their souls to the devil, and they will do everything to gain the power of the devil, killing each other is nothing, but they should not fight for no reason, I think, very Maybe it''s for something! Damn, if only we''d come here sooner."


    "Look, it seems that this place was instantly destroyed by some force." The previous graceful figure pointed to the burned secret room and the collapsed gap, and said, "It seems that these alchemists have obtained terrifying devil power again."

 Chapter 26: Ten days

    "Look, there are footprints here." Another burly figure suddenly said.


    The three immediately looked at the trails and footprints on the sand next to them. The graceful woman''s face changed slightly and said, "There are footprints of children, damn it, this alchemist is doing human experiments. I''ll go down and have a look." Jump down.


    After a while, she jumped out of it again and landed firmly on the edge of the sand. If Du Di''an was here, she would be stunned. You know, the height of this secret room is more than three meters, but this woman just jumped, You can reach three meters, what kind of physical fitness is this?


    "This alchemist turned out to be a three-star alchemist!" The graceful woman was holding a dark medal with three five-pointed stars on it, marked with "¡ï", which was related to the belief of alchemists. They did not believe in the Creator and God the Father. But I believe in the starry sky above my head, and there are even some crazy alchemists whose ultimate goal is to refine the stars in the sky!


    Among these alchemists, many gave up halfway and changed to another profession, called astrology fortune-tellers.


    Although it is only for divination, star fortune-tellers are also wanted by the Holy See of Light. The reason is very simple. The will of God the Father will only be passed on to the Holy See of Light, and only the great Pope can understand. Anyone who tries to guess the will of God the Father, They are all evil cults with ulterior motives!


    "I didn''t expect to be a powerful character." The burly and strong man''s eyes narrowed, "Being able to be certified as a three-star alchemist should be due to some extraordinary power, and the person who killed him is probably a three-star alchemist, even... It''s a four-star alchemist!"


    The graceful woman''s face was gloomy, "There is no trace of the child he kidnapped. There is a sand pile inside, and most of them are buried in it. When I turn around and let someone come over to dig out his body, see what it is called, and give comfort to his parents. Kim, after all, died because of this action."


    "Hopefully I can still tell what he looks like." The short shadow sighed.


    The graceful woman twitched her face and said nothing.


    "Look for clues nearby. I''ll bring the alchemist''s corpse up, and notify the reserve knights to come and carry it back, and take the other things inside by the way." The burly man instructed, and then jumped down.


    The graceful woman and the short shadow looked at each other, pulled out their weapons, and searched around.


    ...


    ...


    In the blink of an eye, ten days passed.


    On the west side of the desert, in a fence made of desert plants and sand, Du Di''an and the four were leaning on it. The surrounding sand was not only hot, but also dried the water in their bodies, and the fine sand in the sand easily blocked the pores. sweat glands, causing a sharp rise in body temperature.


    "Ten days..." Macon was listless, chewing the grass roots in his mouth, and said, "Are we going to go back by ourselves? I''m running out of strength."


    Sham said angrily: "You can be content. If it wasn''t for Du Di''an''s idea, it would be one thing whether we could hold on for these ten days. If we were eliminated, we would end up ruining our family."


    Macon rolled his eyes and said angrily, "It''s up to you to say that Dean is my savior."


    Du Dian glanced at him and said, "You still treat me as your savior, and you refused to dig some water for me last night."


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    Macon blushed and said, "I''m not too tired. When I go back, I will pour water for you every day, and I will definitely serve you like my grandma."


    "Don''t come." Du Dian said angrily: "I don''t want to be your grandfather."


    "Fuck you, take advantage of me."


    "Okay, you still have the strength to speak, I''m so hot that I''m smoking." Zach said with a lifeless look.


    "Then you are brave, and you are showing it for people to see, and you know that there are living people here."


    "You! When you go back, see if I don''t beat you."


    "I was wrong, please don''t, don''t wait until you go back, come now, I owe it now, come, come if you have the strength!"


    "You bitch." Zach rolled his eyes.


    After getting along for ten days, the four of them have experienced common adversity and survived together. They have long been as close as brothers, and they no longer care about what they say. And this result made Du Di''an, Sha, and Zha realize the unknown side of Macon, being cheap!


    Talking is definitely the master of angering people and not paying for their lives, and he is also a talker.


    This made Du Di''an a little helpless. He naturally did not expect that after many years, not only him, Sha and Zha, but the whole world was injured by this cheap technique, and it was included in the annals of war.


    Ding Ding!


    Suddenly a bell rang.


    Several people immediately looked up and saw a camel nearly five meters high, gradually walking in the wind and sand, dragging a wooden board more than ten meters long behind it. There were many small wooden wheels at the bottom of the wooden board. with seven or eight children.


    Du Di''an was a little stunned. Although he knew that nuclear radiation would change the world a lot, he didn''t expect that a camel''s genes would be so expanded by radiation. In addition to being twice as large, there were snakes on the camel''s four hooves. General scale coverage, like a war behemoth!


    The three-meter-high black horse he had seen before was completely incomparable in front of this mutant camel.


    "It''s a giant camel!" Zach actually recognized it, and said in surprise: "It''s actually a giant camel specially designed to carry people in the desert, haha..." As soon as he laughed, he was almost choked by a bite of sand from the wind.


    Du Di''an saw the children on the board behind him, and knew that they were participating in the survival assessment together. Although he didn''t know how these people found them, the trial finally ended successfully, and he was relieved. He could finally go back and have a good rest, and watch it again by the way. Looking at the Alchemy Notes, he was still quite curious about the scientists in this world.


    "Come here!" A veiled woman sat on the camel and said to the four Du Di''an.


    Du Di''an and the others immediately dragged their bodies and moved over, and came to sit on the wooden board behind the camel.


    "The four of you are actually there?" At this time, a thin boy on the board saw Du Di''an and the four with a face full of surprise.


    Du Dian glanced at him, remembered that it was Link in the next bedroom, smiled slightly, and said nothing.


    Macon said proudly: "That''s right, you don''t even look at who we are. We are the strongest four groups. What does it mean to survive for ten days, and the next twenty days will be so-so."


    Sham whispered: "You can still be friends without blowing."


    Zach shrugged and said: "The nature has been exposed, I can''t take it back."


    Macon didn''t care either, he laughed, and the deadly atmosphere on the wooden board became a little more active.


    The thin boy sighed and said, "The other three people in my dormitory didn''t persevere. It''s a pity that there are too few water sources here. You are so lucky, hey!" He said, with a bit of loneliness and regret on his face, after all They are dormitory partners who have been with each other for several months. From today, they will be separated, and it is inevitable that they will not part.


    When the other children heard his words, their faces darkened.


    Du Dian didn''t say anything, looked up at the woman on the hunchback, thinking about a question... How did she climb up?


    ...


    ...


    Off topic, I came across an interesting thing today.


    I used to see old people rushing for seats in the news, but I didn''t expect to witness an old man like Su Zhi in person today, but instead of rushing for a seat, he hit someone with a cart.


    There was a lot of cargo in the car, and the person who hit the car shook and almost lost his footing and fell, but the old lady said indifferently, sorry, it was normal until here, and then a very reversed scene appeared. But a very dissatisfied sentence popped out: Who made you stand in the way?


    However, the road is very wide, even if two or three carts pass by side by side.


    Moreover, I was thinking that even if the road is narrow and blocked, at least I can say "Let me go".


    I was very surprised at the time. After thinking about it, I suddenly thought of a question. Since we should "respect the old and love the young", the old and the young are the same group of protection. We will teach the children to be polite, obedient, and morally aware. Why can''t we treat the elderly the same ? Of course, they won''t be allowed to study, it''s impractical, but at least the basic courtesy and morality can be printed on pamphlets and sent to every household with elderly people.


    I believe that most old people are worthy of respect and are not needed. After all, strange flowers are called strange flowers, mainly because they are rare.


    But you can also show it to your children and grandchildren. After all, morality is the basis of human beings. If this species exists for a day, morality should not disappear. I believe it will always be passed down.


    I believe that the money for printing pamphlets will not be used much by the country. After all, disease prevention and propaganda can be done. Why should we abandon the treatment of things that adhere to basic morals?


    So I continued to ponder, apart from pamphlets, what other ways can I improve the knowledge of some people, I thought about it for a long time, until I was hungry, I woke up... What the fuck do you think about eating this thing, can you still fill your stomach?


    Immediately I felt like a ****.


    There is also a little interesting thing. When I was studying when I was a child, there was a magical textbook. Yes, it was as magical as a physical education class. Every time you came to this class, you would see an English teacher, or a math teacher, or a chemistry teacher, appearing In the classroom, this is something that can never happen in other courses. It is very magical, and this textbook is called "Ideology and Morality".


    Physical education classes are occupied, ideology and morality are occupied, but society continues to develop miraculously, and the speed is not bad.


    Thinking about it carefully, it is really amazing. I really want to ask the brick home, what does the development of the world rely on?


    Well, think too far again.

 Chapter 27: Knight Rewards

    Returning to the gathering place in the camel desert car, Du Di''an and the others immediately saw this desolate sandy ground. There were dense figures of different heights and heights. They were all other students who participated in the assessment together, although the overall number was much smaller than before. But still very impressive.


    "There are so many qualified people!" Macon said in surprise.


    Du Di''an was also a little surprised, but it was soon relieved. Although the children recruited here come from different families, under the collective training of Tuobu, whether they are delicate or weak, they have transformed into a new look. There is not much difference in physique among all people. The first and last place Although there are hundreds of rankings, in terms of performance alone, the difference is only a few minutes.


    Moreover, in this desert survival assessment, stamina only plays a supporting role. What can really help you survive depends on your brain and luck.


    "I didn''t expect that there are so many powerful people." Mei, Sha, and Zha felt a little emotional, "I thought we were hard enough and worked hard enough, but I didn''t expect others to do the same."


    The other children who went with them were also a little surprised. During the ten-day desert survival test, everyone realized the difficulty of survival. They thought it was a miracle that they could grit their teeth and survive tenaciously. There are so many people. All of a sudden, everyone realizes that they are by no means the most special one in this world. If they want to get attention, their current efforts alone are nothing. Hundreds of times as hard as you can!


    The sun sets, and with the return of the last Hao Camel desert car, all those who have successfully passed the assessment have all arrived.


    At this moment, a huge black carriage galloped over, stopped in front of everyone, and jumped from the car to two sides, namely Tuobu and the female instructor Chris. After they got out of the car, they turned around and opened the curtain, only to hear the clinking of the chains, and then a twisted figure was pushed down from the car and fell to the sand with a bang.


    Tob and Chris were not polite at all, and rudely pulled up the chain on the man''s body and raised him in front of all the children.


    In an instant, the entire sand was silent.


    When Du Dian saw this figure, his pupils shrank suddenly, the fingers in his sleeves were tightly gripped, and cold sweat dripped down his back, only to see the figure locked by the iron chain, which was an alchemist! Moreover, he is a "Life" alchemist of the same faction as the rickety old man he killed, and he has also used his own body for experiments!


    Moreover, the sequelae of this experiment are even more terrible!


    On the burly body, a twisting snake tail grows from the back of the hip, wrapping around the body, his face is full of fleshy bumps, and at the wrist of his left hand, a machete-like bone dagger protrudes, extremely sharp, but the most terrifying. The person''s chest is actually split from the center, and sharp fangs can be vaguely seen from the cracked gap!


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    This can no longer be called a "person"!


    Everyone was stunned.


    Among them, the children who had not seen the alchemist, opened their eyes wide and looked at such a "monster" in disbelief.


    Tuobu looked around at everyone, smiled lightly, and said: "First of all, congratulations to you, you have passed this survival test, and you can continue to be ravaged by me for six months. Second, you should know some things." Stepping on the back of the burly figure wrapped in iron chains, he kicked him to the ground and said, "This is the alchemist your parents often warned you about, the devil''s apostle!"


    All the children were in an uproar. They didn''t expect to hear that the big devil actually existed since childhood, and it appeared in front of them. Suddenly, all kinds of evil legends about "alchemists" appeared in their minds. I shuddered, and the twisted body in front of me also confirmed this - this is the incarnation of the devil!


    "This time, "Alchemists" lurked in the place where you were assessed, causing many people to be eliminated unexpectedly. At this time, Chris stood up, with a faint smile on her wheat-skinned face, and said, "Fortunately, there were no casualties. What is worth congratulations is that after encountering the "Alchemist", many people have not been killed. Frightened, he resisted, and cooperated with the Knights of Light to subdue the alchemist. "


    She raised her hand and said, "This is the alchemist who was subdued by a student who cooperated with the Knight of Light last night and has not yet received the judgment of Light."


    Hearing her words, all the children were in an uproar again, full of amazement and excitement.


    Although the Knight of Light is not a combat profession attached to the military, it is the exclusive knight of the Holy See of Light, which symbolizes noble morality and pure will. Even the nobles are proud to be able to marry the Knight of Light!


    "There are actually bright knights here."


    "I didn''t expect that among us, there are such powerful people who can help the Knights of Light capture this demon."


    "I''m so happy. It would be great if I could meet the Knights of Light. I really want to see what they look like."


    Mei, Sha, and Zha said with emotion.


    When other children mentioned this, their faces were full of envy. They were able to assist the Bright Knight in punishing demons. Thinking about it makes people excited and excited. What a great thing!


    Chris smiled slightly and said, "In this incident, a total of thirty-eight people were attacked by alchemists, but seventeen of them did not surrender to the devil, but delayed the arrival of the Knights of Light, especially last night. The ''Rorian'' not only saved his life in the hands of the alchemist, but also secretly left a signal, which allowed the Knights of Light to track it down smoothly and capture him in one fell swoop."


    "Here, I announce that all candidates who assist the Knights of Light in subduing the alchemists will be rewarded with a second-class military merit. This military merit will be recorded in your household registration. If you become a guard in the future, you will be directly promoted to the rank of captain. Apply for the right to become a knight." The "knight" here refers to a knight established by the military.


    Hearing her words, everyone''s eyes turned red with envy.


    Knights and guards are completely two levels!


    Although the knights of the military are not comparable to the knights of the Holy See of Light, they are also loved by the nobles. Even a commoner knows that the knighthood is almost the highest achievement a commoner can achieve, and its status is only slightly inferior to that of the nobles. Among them, the commander of the knights has a higher status than the nobles. As for the knight commander, let alone the figure standing at the top of the knight, the nobles should treat them politely when they see them.


    "In addition to what we know, in the secret stronghold of an alchemist ten days ago, the Knights of Light found several footprints. According to their speculation, someone was caught by the alchemist, but they managed to escape. I don''t know which one was. Please stand up and let me be included in the military merit together." Chris suddenly smiled sweetly.


    Hearing this, everyone was stunned and looked at each other.


    Du Dian''s heart was tight, and he immediately saw Zach, Mei, and Sha looking at him. Only the three of them knew about his escape from the alchemist.


    Looking at the envy and excitement in the eyes of the three, Du Dian sank in his heart. He knew that most of them were the footprints when he ran out, and were traced by the bright knights later, but due to the long time interval, the remaining footprints After being reminded by Zach, he deliberately covered it up, so he was not caught up.


    After he killed the alchemist, he didn''t even think about covering up his whereabouts, because he didn''t expect the Knights of Light to appear at all. Later, he covered up his footprints and just dealt with Zaki. Thinking about it at this moment is just lucky, if not in time. If you cover it up, I''m afraid that the Knight of Light has already caught up. He has the Alchemy Notebook tied in his trousers. If such an item is found, you don''t have to think about it.

 Chapter 28: Judgment

    Although the military reward that Chris said was extremely attractive, Du Dian rationally dismissed the idea of claiming it. He was not sure whether the Knight of Light had found any clues about him from the alchemist''s secret room. Although he set it on fire, the traces of the explosion would not disappear. If he was brought to the Knights of Light for questioning after receiving the award, it would inevitably reveal flaws.


    Moreover, there is the Alchemy Notebook in his trouser legs. Once it is searched, the consequences will be disastrous. He just wants to stay as far away from those bright knights as possible.


    Thinking of this, he couldn''t help laughing bitterly. If he knew this earlier, he would not keep this note. In that case, if he went to claim military merit now and make up a reason to escape, he might be able to get away with it.


    "A chance for a knight..." Du Di''an sighed, a little painful, but he still clenched his teeth and broke his thoughts.


    "Dian, that''s great..." Zach was excited, and just wanted to continue, but was stopped by Du Dian''s stern gaze.


    Zha, Mei, and Sha couldn''t help but be stunned for a moment, but after a few months of getting along with them and the ten-day survival training, they had already cooperated tacitly, and they could understand Du Di''an''s meaning with just one look, but they couldn''t help but be full of doubts. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, it can be said that a golden road leading to the highest status symbol of civilians has been delivered to Du Di''an''s feet, but he only needs to take one step forward!


    This is what so many people dream of!


    However, under Du Di''an''s gaze, the three of them looked at each other and said nothing. During this period of time, they were convinced of Du Di''an. Although they felt incredible and doubtful, they still did not stop Du Di''an''s choice.


    Seeing that there was no response in the crowd, Chris couldn''t help frowning slightly. At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded: "I, it''s me." It was a short boy who raised his hand and looked a little nervous.


    Chris breathed a sigh of relief, took a deep look at him, and smiled: "Congratulations, the reward will be recorded in your household registration by Instructor Tob. Now, let''s appreciate how the Knight of Light punishes the devil. ."


    When her words fell, a person slowly stepped out from the huge black carriage. This is a young man in silver-white armor. He has a handsome appearance, a tall and straight body, and his armor squeaked softly while walking, making a pleasant sound. Touch sound, full of charm.


    There was excitement in the eyes of all the children. Compared with the proud nobles, the commoners worshiped the Knights of Light who were full of justice and kindness.


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    Du Dian looked at the young bright knight, but he was thinking about the previous things in his mind. Could it be that the alchemist Chris said was not the one he met? Or, was that short kid pretending to be claiming it? No matter what it was, Chris didn''t seem to have any intention of verifying it. He believed it only because the other party admitted it, which made him feel a little regretful. He knew it was so simple, and he claimed it, and he blamed himself for thinking too much.


    He sighed secretly, but he knew that he had missed the chance, so he could only put his mind away. No matter what, life is only once, and it is always right to be cautious. As for military merit... He shook his head and put these thoughts aside. At this time, the young bright knight had come to the alchemist who was stepping on Tuobu. With a faint smile on his face, he slowly pulled out the knight''s sword from his waist and held it high, the sunlight reflected on the blade. Colorful light.


    "I, Melk, judge the devil in the name of the God of Light!"


    "Light will eventually drive out all darkness!"


    He chanted softly, the sword in his hand charged up, and suddenly slashed down.


    With a puff, the head of the dying alchemist was immediately cut off, blood spurted out from his neck, his body fell to the ground, and the blood gurgled into the sand.


    Such a bloody scene made many children take a step back in fright, but soon became excited again, shouting the words on the cover of the Book of Light: "Light will eventually drive out all darkness!!"


    This sound came one after another, gradually became neat, and reverberated throughout the desert.


    Du Dian didn''t want to be found out, so he shouted softly, but said silently in his heart: "Can''t you see that the blood of that person is as bright red as you!"


    In this world, it is very common to try prisoners in public. Whenever a prisoner is judged for heinous crimes, it will attract countless crowds. Perhaps in this monotonous world of entertainment, this is also a kind of "lively".


    Soon, the Knight of Light named Melk judged the alchemist, cleaned his sword, and turned to leave.


    Du Di''an and the other children, escorted by Tuobu and Chriss, were dragged back to the special training site for scavengers in a black carriage.


    After returning to the dormitory again, everyone felt that this small room that once looked shabby and shabby was so precious and reliable.


    ...


    ...


    "I heard that a total of eight alchemists were arrested this time." Dashani leaned on the soft chair and said with a smile: "This is a feat that even I am jealous of. You are the cooperator of this operation. If you can get a piece of the pie, I believe that after this batch of special training is over, you will be promoted to the hunter school. When the time comes to discipline that group of "monsters", you will have to suffer. "


    Tob said with a wry smile: "You are joking, this is just a drizzle for you, the main credit this time is all on the genius of the Mel family, and today he also publicly adjudicated a two-star alchemist. "


    "The Mel family seems to be about to rise again..." Dashani showed a smile on the corner of her mouth and said, "I heard that a three-star alchemist was killed by another alchemist, and a child escaped from him? "


    "That''s right." Tob sighed: "The child has been brought to interrogation by Kris, and he should find some clues to kill the three-star alchemist, most of whom are also alchemists. From the light knight''s point of view, The scene was destroyed by a fearful demonic force, hopefully not a four-star alchemist."


    Dashani narrowed her eyes slightly and said, "The four-star alchemist has not been active outside for a long time. If there are four-star alchemists in the desert, it is estimated that you and this group of bright knights will not be able to come back."


    Tuobu took a light breath, smiled bitterly, and said, "Next time something like this happens, I hope you will give me advance notice, so that I won''t be kept in the dark again."


    Dashani yawned and said, "I''m tired, you go to work first."


    Tuobu smiled bitterly and could only respectfully step back.


    ...


    ...


    "Jubi calendar 291 years, disaster and rainy season."


    "The experiment is ready, the structure of the human body, I have completely mastered, today, I will use my own body to carry out the experiment, and soon, my ''Rothyard'' name will forever be engraved in the Temple of Alchemy, immortal, and I, will also become the new creator..."


    When there was no one around, Du Dian secretly looked through the alchemy notes. This is a record of the alchemist experimenting and refining his body. From the scribbled goose feathers, he could faintly see a little trembling, which shows how much he was at that time. excitement and excitement.

 Chapter 29: Dark Holy See

    "Failed, why is this happening, the nerves and blood vessels are connected, the implantation should be very successful, why didn''t you get the same power as the Knight of Light, what''s wrong?


    Seeing this, Du Dian suddenly thought of Rosyard''s mutant shoulders. Judging from the experimental records, the allogeneic organs implanted this time obviously failed. It''s just that the phrase "power like a knight of light" in it made Du Dian a little surprised. Could it be that the purpose of Rosyard''s experiment is to make himself a knight of light? No, to be precise, it has the power of a knight of light!


    Could it be said that the Knights of Light have also been genetically modified to have power beyond ordinary people? !


    This is absolutely explosive news!


    You must know that genetic modification is an evil technique only used by alchemists. If the Knight of Light is the same, then the Holy See of Light behind it is an extremely terrifying existence.


    Du Dian was surprised and continued to read.


    The following diary records Rosyard''s more than ten years of experimental experience. After this experiment failed, Rosyard became cautious. Every time the experiment progressed to success, he would find human children as experimental subjects. Once it is successful, it will be killed, and then the experiment will be released to the "Dark Holy See" to obtain alchemy merits. If the merits are accumulated to a certain extent, they will be able to upgrade the alchemy level, certify a higher level, and obtain greater rights and resource.


    Judging from Rothyard''s notes, this dark church is a huge force composed of heretical professions such as alchemists, potions, and dark puppet masters. , down to the poor, and even in the army, the power of the Holy See of Darkness penetrates. If the Holy See of Light is a behemoth standing proudly in the sun, then the Holy See of Darkness is a terrifying beast lurking in the night!


    "The Holy See of Light, the Holy See of Darkness, the Giant Wall Military Department..." Du Dian murmured. From the current point of view, these three forces are in a three-legged situation in the giant wall, and the mysterious court seems to be detached from the outside world. I don''t know if it belongs to The giant wall army is still the Holy See of Light, but at least it will never rely on the Holy See of Darkness.


    "I know too little..." Du Dian sighed, feeling a little dazed, not knowing what to do in the future.


    Returning to the giant wall army, he could not bear the restraint.


    Joining the Holy See of Light, he could not turn his back on his faith.


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    Taking refuge in the dark church, he could not face his conscience.


    From the notes, it can be seen that the various occupations gathered in this dark church are of the same nature as the scientists in different fields in the old era. However, a group of scientists without legal and moral constraints are no different from the devil.


    Du Di''an couldn''t help feeling that it was really difficult to climb from a small person to the top of the world, and even an idea suddenly appeared in his mind: It seems to be good to live like this.


    As soon as this idea appeared, he thought of the noble girl, her sharp words, the humility of Jula and his wife in front of the nobles, and the fact that the hunters almost lost their lives when they inspected the castle. He closed his eyes gently, and asked himself in the bottom of his heart, can ordinary people survive? Is it possible to escape the disaster with a humble attitude?


    No, can''t!


    When life is threatened, being ordinary and humble will only make one more powerless to resist!


    He slowly opened his eyes, his eyes were firmer than ever before, even if he sacrificed his freedom, even if he betrayed his faith, even if he abandoned his compassion, he would still live well. !


    He grabbed the iron piece on the table, cut his arm suddenly, and cut a bright red wound with a finger length. The pain made him grit his teeth slightly, but his eyes became colder and he said secretly: "Du Di''an, Du Di''an, I just feel difficult. , let you have such a cowardly idea today, how can you be worthy of your parents, how can you be worthy of your sister, you have taken up the only chance to survive!!"


    He gritted his teeth and looked at the blood running on his arm. The severe pain eroded his brain. He clenched his fists, as if to remember the pain firmly, and silently warned himself in his heart that no matter how many difficulties and obstacles he encountered in the future , will never change the direction of their own going forward, and never let the world tame themselves! !


    When Macon and the others came back, they were startled when they saw the blood flowing from Du Dian''s arm, and hurriedly sent him to bandage.


    ...


    ...


    The scavenger training continues.


    Time flies, and three years have passed in the blink of an eye.


    "Dian, the special training is finally over. Today is the coronation ceremony, and I can finally go home to see my parents." Zach said with a smile, he is a well-known dutiful son in the dormitory, and he will definitely go back for one day off every month. Look at your parents, and Du Dian, Macon, and Sham only visit occasionally, and usually just write a letter, so that the family doesn''t have to worry about it.


    Du Dian smiled slightly. In the past three years, his appearance has changed greatly from before. His complexion is not as fair as before, but he has been exposed to the sun to a healthy wheat complexion. , is a very tall figure, after all, he will only be twelve years old this year!


    "Hey, our bedroom should be the most special one. All four of us stayed." Macon grinned, revealing two rows of white teeth, full of sunshine.


    Sham sorted out his clothes, raised his head and smiled when he heard the words: "I hope we can join the army in the future. If we are scattered, remember to go to the tavern opened by my house to play in the future, I will treat you!"


    The three of Du Di''an had already heard about the address of his tavern, Macon laughed and said, "I will definitely go to drink and poor your house!"


    Several people smiled, and at this time, their respective salutes were all cleaned up.


    Du Di''an said: "Let''s go, it''s not early, go to the school grounds to gather."


    The four of them went out and came to the huge school grounds, where they saw dozens of Taoist figures chatting.


    Macon sighed: "Three years ago, there were more than 300 people. I didn''t expect that there are only so many left. Tsk tsk, the four of us can graduate together, I''m really lucky."


    "There are still people who haven''t come yet." Sham shrugged. "I have already counted. The number of our graduates this time is one hundred and six."


    Zach looked at the woods outside the school grounds and wondered, "Why did Lao Tuo bring so many people here to crown us?"


    Du Di''an and a few people followed, and immediately saw Tuobu walking with seven or eight people, talking and laughing along the way. These seven or eight people were well-dressed and elegant, and at first glance they looked like nobles, or domestic servants who had been influenced by noble etiquette.

 Chapter 30: Gods Blessing

    After a while, everyone came together, and there were hundreds of neat figures standing on the school grounds.


    Tuobu said "Wait a minute, everyone" to the eight well-behaved adults, and came to the front of the crowd, with a rare smile on his cold face, and said: "First of all, congratulations, you finally stood out from the garbage and became a A qualified warrior! However, the real test begins now, and from now on, you will leave this warm cradle and face the real life and death!"


    Everyone was stunned for a moment, and some did not understand the meaning of Tuobu''s words.


    Du Di''an''s eyes flashed slightly, knowing that he was going to announce the identity of the scavenger.


    As he expected, Taub looked at everyone''s puzzled expressions, and said loudly: "From the moment you graduate, you will get a new identity, but not the ''guards'' you think, but the ''scavengers''! "


    "Scavengers?" Everyone looked at each other.


    "I know that many people hear this position for the first time." Tob said slowly: "Let me be blunt. In terms of rank, scavengers are higher than guards and the same rank as knights. But , the knights are loyal to the legions and nobles, in my opinion, they are just a group of white faces, and the scavengers are the warriors who truly create wealth and defend mankind!"


    Everyone''s eyes widened.


    On the same level as a knight?


    What a distinguished identity this is!


    Suddenly, everyone felt like they were dreaming. They didn''t expect that three years of hard work and perseverance would be so rewarding!


    Looking at the excitement and excitement on everyone''s faces, Taub calmly said: "However, the difference between scavengers and knights is that one is in the dark and the other is in the light. In short, the scavengers are the heroes behind the scenes! From today on, The identities of your scavengers, even your parents and lovers, cannot be revealed, this is a military secret!"


    "Outside, we will give you the identity of the guards to cover up."


    "After you have accumulated enough military merit, you will be eligible for permanent residence in the business district."


    Hearing Tuobu''s words, everyone''s eyes lit up. Living in the commercial area is the wish of almost every civilian in the residential area!


    "Instructor, what is the job of a scavenger?" At this moment, a dark-skinned teenager in the crowd raised his hand.


    Tuobu said indifferently: "Your job is to go to the safe area outside the giant wall, collect all the information and resources outside the giant wall, and bring it back here!"


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    All the children were in an uproar, and only then did they realize that there is no free lunch in the world. Although no one has seen the world outside the giant wall, the thoughts that have been cultivated since childhood are deeply ingrained in their hearts, and they are full of great reverence for the outside of the giant wall.


    Now, they have to step out of the giant wall and go to that forbidden area.


    "Instructor, can you quit?" Someone raised his hand weakly.


    Tuobu said indifferently: "Yes, I will send consolation money to your family in the name of ''death in the line''."


    Everyone felt a chill in their hearts, this is a position with no choice!


    "You don''t have to worry, although the outside of the giant wall is very dangerous, we will not waste three years of resources to cultivate some cannon fodder. The places where you work are all swept safe areas. As long as you are careful, there will be no danger. The mortality rate of scavengers is not high." Tuobu looked around the crowd and said, "Also, when you go outside the giant wall, you will be blessed by God."


    "God''s blessing?" Everyone was stunned.


    Du Di''an couldn''t help but raise his eyebrows.


    Tuobu pointed at the eight figures next to him with his palm, and said, "These eight are representatives of the seven major consortiums in the business district and the military. You can choose to join any of them. From now on, you will serve in the consortium or the military you choose. Military, the resources you collect from outside the giant wall can be exchanged for huge wealth. I remember that there was once a scavenger who picked up a strange object outside the giant wall, obtained 100,000 gold coins, and became a huge wealth. !"


    Everyone was shocked, 100,000 gold coins? This is simply a wealth they can''t even imagine!


    Du Di''an''s eyes flickered slightly. He didn''t expect that the scavengers could get a commission from the things they picked up. In this way, it seems to be a good career to get rich, but the easier it is to get rich, the more risky it is.


    At this time, the eight men and women came to the front of the crowd, and a black leather-armored youth on the left said with a smile: "I represent the military, this is the contract reward we gave, all those who join our military, ten years later, All will be eligible to live in the commercial district.¡±


    "We are the Sterling Consortium, we can provide occupancy qualifications in commercial areas, as well as houses in prosperous areas, and our commission is 10%..." Another graceful woman smiled.


    Others also spoke one after another, introducing the treatment of their consortium.


    Du Di''an understands a little, Tuobu is just a training center, all the children selected from the residential area will be sent here for collective training, and the force behind this training center is these seven consortia and the military!


    Relying on the military alone, it is still impossible to forcefully recruit students from various colleges in the residential area and enter the special training ground for scavengers. After all, some colleges were founded by nobles or under the banner of a certain consortium.


    What surprised him was that there was no intervention from the Holy See of Light.


    At this time, other children have come to the representatives of various consortiums and the military to choose their future path. The conditions given by these consortiums are all the same. Because they compete with each other, the benefits given are not much different.


    "Dean, let''s choose the same consortium," Macon said.


    Du Dian nodded slightly.


    Sham asked, "Are we picking the military or the consortium?"


    "You go and see the conditions they gave first." Du Dian said, came to Tuobu, and said: "Instructor, can all the consortiums and the military not be selected?"


    Tuobu looked down at him. He was very impressed by this child. Whether it was the tenacious endurance training when he first arrived, or the rapid progress afterward, as well as every major test in the past three years, the performance of this child made him impress him. At this moment He smiled slightly and said, "If you don''t choose, you will quit. You have good qualifications. I believe you can get ahead among the scavengers and take advantage of the opportunity." Having said this, he paused and said, "I can personally give you one. It is suggested that the Mellon consortium has great potential."


    Du Dian was a little surprised, but he didn''t expect that what he recommended was not the military, but a consortium.


    Seeing Taub turned and left, he didn''t chase after him to ask. At this time, Sham, Macon, and Zach came back, and Sham said: "I saw that the conditions are similar, and the military is the best in all aspects, but The materials picked up are not high enough to extract, and the conditions given by these consortiums vary from person to person. I just saw that Rorian joined the Sterling Consortium, and the other party actually gave a 15% extraction fee, and, What about getting God''s blessing once a month!"


    "what!!"


    Just then, a low growl sounded in vain.


    Everyone couldn''t help but look, and saw a young man standing in front of the graceful woman who represented the Sterling Consortium, with a face full of pain, hugging his head and roaring, with bulging veins on his face and shoulders, extremely hideous.

 Chapter 31: The First

    "It''s Rorian!" Macon said in astonishment. "What is he doing?"


    When he questioned, Rorian roared in vain, a little redness appeared in his dark complexion, and a lot of hot sweat trembled in his muscles, with a faint stench. With this loud roar, Rorian recovered, the tense muscles all over his body gradually loosened, and the blue veins on his body disappeared. He let out a long breath, looked down at his palm, and looked a little surprised.


    Suddenly, he suddenly squatted down and jumped up in place.


    call!


    Jumped to a height of two meters!


    Not the top of the head, but the soles of the feet two meters off the ground! !


    The whole place was instantly silent.


    Everyone looked at him in astonishment with disbelief on their faces. After three years of hard training in the special training ground, although everyone''s physical fitness was much higher than that of their peers, they had their limits. To jump to a height of two meters in situ was simply unbelievable. Stupid dream!


    But Rorian did it!


    Du Di''an also saw his pupils shrink, which is almost the limit height of an athlete in the old era, and it is definitely not something that ordinary people can practice. Moreover, although Rorian''s performance in the three years of training was very good, it was far from such extraordinary physical fitness.


    "This is God''s blessing?" Du Di''an muttered to himself.


    When Sham heard what he said, he was stunned: "What?"


    At this time, the graceful woman smiled at the surprised Rorian, and said, "This is God''s blessing. From now on, you will get a chance to bless every month. I hope you will work hard and use God''s blessings. The power given will create more wealth for mankind!"


    Rorian was full of excitement, knelt down on one knee, and said respectfully: "Rian swears allegiance to the Father and God!"


    The graceful woman smiled slightly, lifted him up, raised her head and said to the others, "Anyone who joins my Sterling consortium will be blessed by God."


    Hearing her words, the other children had already understood that Rorian would suddenly have this extraordinary power, which came from God''s blessing, and all the children were eager to move for a while.


    "Nori, aren''t you being kind?" Another slender man raised his eyebrows and said, "It''s not fair competition to bring blessings here, right?"


    The graceful woman smiled and said, "The rules don''t say you can''t bring it, right?"


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    When the man suffocated, he could only snort coldly, and said loudly: "Everyone, everyone who joins our Green Consortium will also receive God''s blessing. After signing the agreement, you can get it when you return to the consortium, don''t worry."


    Hearing this, many children who took a fancy to their consortium breathed a sigh of relief, but some still hesitated and moved to the Sterling consortium represented by Noni.


    "what!!"


    At this time, another low roar sounded.


    I saw a short boy standing in front of Noni, with bulging veins all over his body, similar to the previous Rorian. After a while, the abnormality recovered. He also jumped in place and reached a height of two meters.


    The others around were amazed for a while, but they were all excited when they thought that they could have such extraordinary power later.


    Du Di''an''s pupils were constricted, and the shock in his heart was stronger than before. This time he could see clearly that the "blessing of God" that the woman named Noni said was an old-fashioned syringe, and the inside of the syringe was pink. The liquid, like diluted blood, was precisely because she injected the liquid into the boy''s arm, which caused the latter''s physical strength to soar!


    What kind of God''s blessing is this? It''s clearly like a genetic medicine!


    The reason why Du Di''an was shocked was not that they called the genetic medicine "God''s blessing", but how could it be possible to produce such a remarkable genetic medicine with the technology of this era? You must know that extracting genes is already a technology at the microscopic level. How can it be possible without a microscope, no electricity, and no precision instruments? !


    "Wait, she is talking about the blessing of God. Could it be that this belongs to the Holy See of Light?" Du Di''an sighed in his heart. He always felt that the Holy See of Light had an unknown secret, and it was very likely that it was with the Holy See of Light. It was related a hundred years ago. Perhaps, this gene extraction technology is one of the secrets of the Holy See of Light?


    "so amazing!"


    "As expected of God''s blessing!"


    "I don''t know how long this power can last?"


    Mei, Zha, and Sha were all excited. Anyone who thought that they would have power beyond ordinary people would be so excited that they couldn''t control themselves.


    When Du Dian heard their words, he was a little worried in his heart. He only hoped that the side effects of this genetic medicine would not be too great. Having seen the "Life" alchemy of the Rosyard, he felt that this genetic medicine should also be regarded as "Life". "A type of pie alchemy. It''s just that the same thing, when he appeared in the hands of the Holy See of Light, was legal and just.


    "Look, it''s Bei Weiwei!"


    "He chose the Mellon consortium!"


    At this moment, Zach and Sham suddenly shouted and pointed to the girl in front of an elegant man. The girl was about eleven or twelve years old, with fair complexion, tall stature, and slightly bulging breasts. Although she was still budding, she was already able to grasp The most attractive thing that caught the attention of many boys was her appearance, her delicate oval cheeks, extremely beautiful and gentle.


    Macon blushed and said, "What are you guys calling me?"


    Zach said: "Come on, pretend to be shy, haven''t you always liked her?"


    Macon glared at him and said, "Be quiet, do you want me to strangle you?"


    "Tsk tsk, before we even started, I''ve been focusing on sex over friends." Zach looked contemptuous.


    Du Di''an smiled slightly. This Bei Weiwei should be one of the most eye-catching girls in this special training, and also the object of Macon''s secret love. He didn''t expect that the Mellon consortium was chosen. He thought of Tuobu If so, he said, "Let''s choose the Mellon consortium."


    Sham said in astonishment, "Isn''t it?"


    "It''s still Dean who is used to you." Zach shook his head.


    Macon blushed and cast a grateful look at Du Dian.


    Du Dian smiled and took the lead in queuing up to sign up.


    Soon it was their turn.


    "You are Du Di''an?" The elegant man seemed to recognize Du Di''an, with a cordial smile on his face, and said, "I have read your information, and your grades are very good. The endurance score is the first, the comprehensive survival knowledge score is the first, and you have passed several major exams. The performance is also quite good, especially in the inspection of searching for materials a year ago, the second place found four pieces, which is already very good, but you found eight pieces by yourself, which is exactly double the number of the second place. quantity."


    Du Dian smiled slightly and said, "I''ve won the prize."


    "I didn''t expect you to join our consortium." The elegant man said with a smile: "Here with us, you are the object of seed cultivation, and I believe it is the same in other consortia. This is a contract for you." Pull out another contract.


    Mei, Zha, and Sha were full of curiosity and stretched their necks to watch.


    Du Di''an looked at it. The general content is the same as the above. They are all legal terms, but some of the benefits are much higher than the above. The first is the blessing of God once a month, and the second is the picked up materials. , In addition to the monthly quest limit, after the excess part of the material has been identified, according to the value, a 30% gold coin reward will be given!


    In addition, he also obtained a temporary residence permit in the business district!

 Chapter 32: Gathering of Nobles

    "I read that right, the extra material cost is 30%? Isn''t that three times ours?!"


    "Look, the duration of the temporary residence permit is actually ten years!"


    "Wow, I knew this earlier, I have to study and exercise hard for the past three years without eating or sleeping!"


    Mei, Sha, and Zha shouted enviously.


    Their screams immediately attracted the attention of other children around them, and they gathered around them. When they saw the welfare clauses in the contract, they were all envious, secretly regretting the three years of special training, and they were not working hard enough.


    When Noni next to him saw Du Dian, her brows were slightly wrinkled, "I actually chose the Mellon consortium, does this little guy know something?"


    Rorian, who was standing behind her, heard the words of Macon and others, and felt a little uncomfortable, and said to Noni: "Why is his contract benefit so high? My endurance score is second, and comprehensive knowledge score is third. Not much."


    Noni looked back at him and smiled sweetly: "It''s been like this in all dynasties, the first place will always get preferential treatment."


    Rorian''s face was ugly. In the past three years of special training, the top five of them competed with each other and regarded each other as opponents. Therefore, seeing Du Dian received such preferential treatment, he was inevitably a little dissatisfied and jealous. The cost of extracting materials was high. 10% of him is nothing, mainly because of the ten-year temporary residence permit in the commercial district, which is really enviable.


    "Boy, don''t be unconvinced. Although your grades are excellent, this little guy named Du Di''an has performed extremely well in every big test. What we really care about is the performance in the practice test. Rumor and stamina are useless, if you can''t use it in practice, it''s wasted." At this time, the previous man smiled lightly.


    Hearing his words, Rorian''s face became even more ugly.


    Noni snorted coldly and said, "You should worry about yourself. Don''t even recruit a top five scorer. Let''s see how you will explain to your boss when you go back."


    The man frowned and turned his head away, not arguing with the woman.


    "Are you satisfied with this contract?" The elegant man from the Mellon consortium looked at the people gathered, with a bit of joy in his eyes, and asked Du Di''an gently.


    Du Dian quickly glanced at the terms of the contract, pondered for a moment, and said: "It says that every three months, you must obey the arrangement of the consortium and go out to "scavenge waste". In addition, you must stay in the consortium for the rest of the time. Accept special training, can this be modified? "


    The elegant man was stunned for a moment. He didn''t expect that Du Di''an was not moved immediately in the face of such generous benefits, but negotiated. He was strange in his heart, but he kept a smile on his face and said, "If you think that once every three months is too tight, You can do it every four months, that''s the limit."


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    Du Dian shook his head and said: "There is no problem with once every three months. I mean, can I assign the rest of the time to me?"


    The elegant man hesitated for a moment and said, "This, I want to ask the above. Generally speaking, special training must be accepted, especially if you are the target of seed cultivation..."


    "Hey, little guy, their Mellon consortium doesn''t give it, our Huasheng consortium can." At this time, another burly middle-aged man laughed.


    The elegant man''s face changed slightly, and said angrily: "Burton, you are fouling!"


    "Why don''t I think so?" Another mature woman said with a smile: "Our Green Consortium can also accept this Mr. Du''s conditions."


    The elegant man''s face changed, he gritted his teeth, and said to Du Di''an: "Okay, I promise you!"


    Du Di''an breathed a sigh of relief and thanked the two secretly in his heart.


    "The contract will be revised and given to you when you return to the consortium." The elegant man said to Du Di''an, "I didn''t take the blessing of God with me. I will give it to you when I return to the consortium. You stand behind me and wait. Come back with me later."


    Du Dian nodded slightly.


    Seeing that the other consortiums are a foregone conclusion, they can only give up regretfully, but the former burly middle-aged man still did not give up: "Little guy, if they go back and breach the contract, you can come to our Huasheng Consortium, and my words will always be valid. !"


    The elegant man looked at him angrily, "Burton, you are a slander!"


    The burly middle-aged man shrugged, turned around, and continued to win over the other students.


    The elegant man snorted coldly, his eyes fell on Macon and the others, his expression eased, and he said, "Are you two together?"


    Macon nodded again and again and said, "Yeah... Can you improve our welfare?"


    The elegant man was speechless and said helplessly: "It really can''t be changed, it''s all rules."


    Macon looked up and saw that there were no other consortiums competing to help him drive up his worth. He couldn''t help being disappointed and said, "Okay."


    The elegant man couldn''t help but be excited when he saw his move.


    Soon, everyone was divided up by the seven consortiums and the military. Each consortium led the students they recruited to take their own carriages outside the school grounds to the headquarters of the consortium.


    Du Di''an and others lifted the curtain and looked at the school field behind the carriage, feeling a little sad and reluctant. The sweat swept here in the past three years, and the experience of falling and getting up again and again, are like a microcosm of each scene, forever imprinted on it. in their memory.


    "goodbye¡­¡­"


    The carriage galloped away and came to the bustling area. Pedestrians on the road saw the flags planted on these carriages and hurriedly avoided one by one, for fear of blocking them.


    After a while, several carriages of the Mellon consortium stopped in front of a bustling street. The elegant man jumped from the carriage and entered a huge high-rise building on the side of the road. After a while, seven or eight young men emerged from the high-rise building. Girl, come to the carriage, open the car door, and say to the people in the car: "Everyone, please."


    The children in the car looked at these white and tender girls and were at a loss for a while.


    When Du Di''an got off the carriage, he saw the elegant man running straight over, with a smile on his face, and said, "Come with me and take you to go through the identity formalities." After speaking, he turned and led the way in front.


    Du Di''an immediately followed, and Macon and others saw this and followed Du Di''an.


    The people in the other carriages, led by the girls, followed behind.


    "After claiming your identity, you are the members of the Mellon Consortium. From now on, you will enjoy the benefits of the Mellon Consortium and obey the rules of the Mellon Consortium." The elegant man led the road in front and said, "Dian, you It is the seed target of this session, there is a noble party tonight, you can come and meet the upper-class celebrities in the business district, these people are also members of the various families of our Mellon consortium, and they are your and my bosses.¡±


    Du Dian was stunned and asked, "Can you not go?"


    The elegant man turned his head in surprise and said, "Why?"


    "I want to go back and see my parents first." Du Di''an said.


    The elegant man came to his senses, with some admiration in his eyes, and said, "Understandable, but seeing as your parents are not in a hurry, this is a rare opportunity, no one else wants to participate, and besides meeting those nobles, there are also "hunters" "Master is present, if you can win the favor of any hunter, I believe that the future is boundless. "


    "Hunter?" Du Dian was stunned, and immediately thought of the two of Fino three years ago. The fact that he was taken to the hunter to test the castle should be a secret and not spread. However, it now seems that although the identity of the hunter is secret, it is only for ordinary people and guards, and it is not a secret for scavengers.


    "Okay." Du Dian agreed.


    Mei, Sha, and Zha said enviously, "You brat, why are all good things falling on your head, you''re so jealous of me."


    "No, you must let Dean treat you back!" Zach suggested.


    "Agree!" Sham immediately agreed.


    Du Dian rolled his eyes and ignored them.


    "By the way, what is a hunter?" Macon asked curiously.


    The elegant man smiled slightly and said, "You will know it in the future. Well, you can register here." When he came to the counter in the hall, a beautiful woman was greeted inside, and he said to Du Di''an, "Come with me. ." After that, take Du Di''an to leave alone.

 Chapter 33: Banquet

    Du Di''an was taken to a luxurious office.


    There was a sturdy old man sitting inside. When the elegant man pushed the door in, a pretty young girl was sitting on the old man''s lap, holding a burgundy glass in her hand, filled with dark red wine, enjoying Life.


    "Pete, can''t you learn to knock on the door?" The good thing was disturbed, the old man patted the girl''s buttocks, motioned her to leave, and turned to say with a stern face.


    The elegant man smiled and said, "You don''t know how to lock the door every time."


    The old man glanced at him angrily, noticed Du Dian who was following behind him, raised his eyebrows and said, "Is this the group of scavengers you picked, and how did you bring them here?"


    Pete smiled and said, "This is the seed talent in this batch of students. His contract needs to be revised. Don''t worry, it''s all within the permitted scope."


    "Oh?" The old man looked at Du Dian with interest, and said: "You did a good job this time, you can actually attract the top of this group of scavengers and train them well, our consortium may be able to make more in the future. A hunter."


    Pete smiled and said to Du Di''an: "You can sit down first, and the new contract will be delivered soon." After speaking, he said to the old man: "The badge and uniform, take it out."


    The old man smiled, opened the drawer below, and took out a stack of black standard soft armor.


    Du Dian sat on the sofa next to him and saw this uniform, and he couldn''t help thinking of the people who took him to the special training ground three years ago. The uniforms they wore were exactly the same as this one.


    "This is your scavenger medal and uniform." Pete handed the clothes and medal to Du Dian, with two different medals on it, and said: "This is the guard medal, you only need to show this medal when you meet civilians. , this is your disguised identity in the future, if you meet a noble or a knight, you can show the scavenger medal."


    Du Di''an looked at the two medals, the guards were silver medals, engraved with crossed swords. The scavenger medal is black, engraved with the outline of the giant wall of Silvia, which is somewhat similar to the pattern on the banknote.


    "You are the seed cultivation object of our Mellon consortium." Pete sat down beside Du Dian and said: "After each scavenging, the consortium will give you Bright Spring Water, which is an extremely expensive potion purchased from the Holy See of Light. Purify the radiation value in your body, so you don''t have to worry about radiation problems in scavenging. When your accumulated points reach a certain level, the consortium will give you a chance to enter the Hunter School for training. At that time, as long as you can persevere , you can become a hunter!"


    Du Dian''s eyes flashed, he didn''t expect that in addition to the innate "bright physique" mentioned by the hunter named Fino, there is such a way to become a hunter. Sure enough, the opportunity is for those who are prepared, if not for him I knew for a long time that I was doing special training for scavengers, and I would go to the dangerous giant wall to perform tasks in the future, so I would not train myself so hard, and naturally I would not have such excellent results.


    "I will work hard." Du Dian took the medal and uniform and said seriously.


    "I believe you can do it," Pete encouraged.


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    Du Di''an asked: "Compared with the identity of the hunter, who is higher and who is lower?"


    Pete said with a smile: "It depends on what level of hunter you are, and what level of aristocrat you are, and some poor nobles, if you see an excellent scavenger like you, you will politely flatter you. After all, scavengers can bring wealth to nobles, and it can be said that scavengers are their favorite workers. However, in the eyes of some ancient nobles with strong financial resources, scavengers are nothing, only hunters can satisfy their appetite ."


    Du Di''an''s eyes moved and said: "There are still levels of hunters?"


    "Of course there is, but you won''t know until later, so you must do your best and don''t let down the cultivation of the consortium." Pete encouraged: "The benefits of being a hunter are far more than you think, not only can Obtaining the qualification to live in the permanent business district, and also being a nobleman, if the accumulated merits are high enough, you will be sealed!"


    Du Dian nodded slightly. Although he knew that Pete was throwing bait for himself, he was still a little moved. However, what he cared about in his heart was not the permanent residence qualification of the business district, nor the titled nobles. In his opinion, these are just The appearance of vanity created by the ruler of this world, he is really moved by the privileges and power of hunters!


    Since he nearly died in the hunter inspection castle three years ago, he has clearly realized that only by gaining strength can he control his own destiny and no longer be dominated and trampled on!


    Live as humble as an ant, and will eventually be trampled to death by the inadvertent footsteps of a big man!


    By then, self-pity and self-pity will only appear more pathetic!


    "By the way, your group of scavengers will perform the first scavenger task in seven days." Pete smiled: "You have to behave well, this time the above will pay attention to your results, specific action content and location. The range, I will let you know when the time comes. Before that, my suggestion is that you better wash yourself immediately and change into clean clothes. I will pick you up at night. Nobles hate dirty and messy, remember to comb your hair neatly ."


    Du Dian nodded slightly, "I will pay attention."


    At this moment, the door opened, and the pretty girl from before walked in, handing a contract to Pete.


    Pete looked at it and handed it to Du Dian: "Look at it, sign it if there is no problem."


    Du Dian looked at it from beginning to end again. The revisions he proposed earlier have been changed, and he immediately took the quill handed by Pete and quickly signed his name.


    "It''s done." Pete put away the contract of the consortium and said to Du Di''an: "The contract must be kept well, oh, by the way, remember to wear your medal at night, this is your status symbol, if not necessary, it is best Don''t leave your body."


    "I will."


    "Now, you can meet other people outside, and someone will take you to a temporary residence."


    Du Dian nodded, turned to leave, and pulled the door behind him after going out.


    When he returned to the hall, the three of Macon and the others had already received their respective uniforms and medals, which were no different from Du Di''an. When Du Di''an came over, the previous beautiful woman said, "Everyone, come with me, Take you to a place to stay."


    ...


    ...


    Du Di''an and others were arranged in an ancient castle under the name of the Mellon consortium. The environment was comfortable and clean, with domestic servants and gardeners serving. However, there are only three days for them to stay here. After three days, except for Du Di''an, everyone else has to return to their residential area. When the task is performed, a carriage of the consortium will bring them to the assembly location.


    "Dian, can''t you really take us there?"


    "Dean, you can''t be as obsessed with friends as Macon."


    Macon and Zach looked at the neatly dressed Du Dian, knowing that he was about to go to a noble party, and wailed.


    Du Di''an tidied up the cuffs, looked sideways in the mirror, felt quite satisfied, and said to the wailing Macon, "Help me get my boots."


    Macon howled: "Bullying too much!!" After roaring, he turned around and handed Du Dian''s black boots to him.


    Du Di''an was neatly dressed, and when he saw the carriage coming from the castle from the window, he immediately waved to the three of Macon and said, "I''m going." He went downstairs and left the castle, pinning the medal on his shoulders.


    "Not bad, it looks handsome when you dress up." Pete lifted the curtain and said with a smile.


    Du Dian smiled slightly and stepped into the carriage.


    It didn''t take long for the carriage to come to a secluded place in the business district. There is a huge ancient castle. There is a high parapet outside the manor, and a row of lanterns hangs. More than a dozen exquisite noble carriages parked outside the manor. There are domestic servants to look after.


    When Du Di''an and Pate arrived, the banquet had already begun, and there was melodious music wafting out of the manor.


    Pete smiled, "It seems that we are a little late, let''s go in, remember to be careful with your words and deeds."


    Du Dian nodded.


    After showing his identity and invitation card, Pete brought Du Di''an into the manor, and followed the path to the banquet hall. A special housekeeper helped them open the door. The golden light came to the face, and the faint sound of music inside. , also floated out, quiet and tactful.


    "It''s "Moonlight Beauty" by Master Haydn!" Pete''s eyes lit up, and he hurriedly rushed in.


    Just as Du Di''an was about to follow, a tall figure suddenly passed in front of him, almost on the other side, and when he looked up, it was a middle-aged nobleman dressed in delicate silk and wearing emerald fingers.


    "Boy, don''t you have eyes?" The middle-aged noble glanced at Du Di''an, and when he saw the scavenger medal on Du Di''an''s shoulder, he frowned, "Who let you in?"

 Noble Invitation

    Du was slightly angry, thinking that it was you who robbed me of my way, and actually said that I don''t have eyes? However, thinking of what Pete had instructed, he resisted the urge to refute and said, "Mr. Pete brought me here."


    "Who is Pete?" The middle-aged aristocrat frowned, "Is there any rules for bringing a scavenger here?"


    "Mr. Mays?" At this time, a voice came from behind, Du Di''an and the middle-aged noble looked together, and it was the tough old man Du Di''an saw in the office today. He put on a black gentleman''s suit, and a man beside him A middle-aged lady was holding his arm, and the two were affectionate, as if they were husband and wife.


    At this time, the old man saw Du Dian and said in surprise: "Little guy, what are you doing at this door, didn''t Pete come with you?"


    Du Di''an said honestly: "Mr. Pate just went in."


    At this time, the middle-aged nobleman named Mays frowned and said, "Lao Luo, do you know him?"


    The old man smiled and said: "I just met, this little guy is the seed target of this year''s scavengers, and I have to rely on Mr. Mace to take care of him in the future."


    "So it is." Metz seemed to understand and glanced at Du Dian: "Little guy, choose our Mellon consortium, if you have the vision, you can walk and watch it later, don''t be in a hurry, there are no rules at all."


    Du Di''an''s face was ugly, and his fists were tightly clenched in his sleeves.


    The old man hurriedly said: "Little guy, apologize to Mr. Mays, go first, and pay attention in the future, the banquet is about to start, so don''t delay at the door." After saying that, he gave Du Di''an a wink and signaled He made a mistake and it was over.


    Du Di''an looked at the trace of anxiety on his face, knowing that he was saving himself, and that as long as he apologized, this little episode could pass, but he didn''t feel half happy in his heart, but felt that his whole body and limbs gradually became colder. At this moment, he suddenly realized that the right and wrong of a matter has nothing to do with the matter itself, it depends on what is right or wrong, but only on each other''s identity and status!


    And these two are the difference in strength between the two sides!


    He suddenly realized that the truth is only in the hands of powerful people!


    "I''m sorry..." He lowered his head and said apologetic words. Behind him were the brilliant lights and melodious music in the hall. His face was hidden in the shadows, and as far as his eyes could see, the other party''s delicate boots.


    Then, he saw the boots move, turned and entered the hall.


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    The old man seemed to glance at him, but didn''t say anything, and followed him in.


    "These commoners, no matter how good they are at tuning and teaching, will never learn the rules..." Mace''s voice came from behind, and the old man''s laughter echoed. Du Di''an still lowered his head and clenched his fists. After a long time, he raised his head slightly, looking at the wide manor in front of him, and the lanterns in front of him, and suddenly felt that staying in the darkness that the lanterns could not illuminate seemed to Much freer.


    At this time, another noble carriage came galloping.


    Du Dian silently retracted his gaze, instead of staying at the door, he turned and entered the hall.


    The large and spacious hall was illuminated by oil lamps as if it were daytime. I saw a large number of domestic servants carrying fine wine and cut fruits, shuttled back and forth in the hall, melodious piano music came from the front of the hall, and stood and dressed up everywhere in the hall. Delicate and sophisticated nobles stand together in groups of three or five to chat.


    After the previous incident, Du Di''an was no longer in the mood to enjoy this rare luxury party. He came to the window with the least people, leaned against the window, and looked at the people coming and going in the hall. A flowing picture scrolled in front of his eyes, and his heart was not disturbed, and even a little tired, until two figures in black uniforms suddenly appeared in his line of sight, which interrupted his trance.


    "Hunter?" Du Di''an immediately recognized that the medal on the shoulders of the man and the woman was not the outline of the giant wall of the scavenger, but a black falcon.


    I saw that these two hunters were extremely young, seventeen or eighteen years old. After entering the banquet, when they passed by many nobles along the way, these nobles took the initiative to greet them, obviously they had known each other for a long time.


    Soon, the two hunters came to the center of the banquet, where stood several middle-aged nobles, and the Mays who had been apologizing to Du Dian also stood there, beside him was a fat lady, and a man who kept A lean middle-aged man with a mustache.


    After the two hunters passed, several middle-aged nobles chatted with them with a smile. They were too far apart, and Du Di''an couldn''t hear what they were saying, but it could be seen that these two hunters had a high status in front of the nobles. .


    "Hunter..." Du Dian''s eyes flickered slightly, and he suddenly thought of the alchemy notebook of Rosyard, one of which recorded a thing that impressed him, that is, the vivisection of the hunter!


    What happened was that a young hunter received the task and came to hunt him down, but he was restrained by the poison made by the potionist and used it as his own experiment. Countless pieces of meat.


    Rothyard found the ingredients of alien flesh and blood from the hunter''s body, which inspired him a lot, and it was also one of the factors for his success in certifying a three-star alchemist later.


    "Hey, scavenger?" Just when Du Di''an was thinking, a figure suddenly sounded.


    Du Di''an turned his head to look, and the speaker was a white-haired old man with a kind face. He was holding a cane of some age, with a thumb-sized emerald embedded on the top, and his clothes were relatively simple.


    "Can you come to the party here, are you the seed target of the consortium?" The white-haired old man smiled.


    Du Dian nodded slightly and said, "Who are you?"


    The white-haired old man smiled and said, "I''m Flynn Lane, nice to meet you."


    "Lion?" Du Dian''s eyes moved, and the place where the desert exam took place three years ago seemed to be an aristocratic territory called Ryan.


    Noticing the faint change on Du Di''an''s face, the white-haired old man said with a smile: "You must have heard some things about our Ryan family, but those are old things, don''t mention it. But you, are you interested in becoming a knight of our Ryan family? "


    "Knight?" Du Dian was taken aback. He was no longer the one who didn''t know anything three years ago. After studying hard in the library for the past three years, his understanding of the world has become clear. The so-called knight is not It is just a simple title, but only after professional training and strict assessment by the Knights Hall can one obtain a knighthood certificate.


    "I didn''t make it clear." The white-haired old man said: "It''s just a name in the establishment. Our family will give you the salary of a formal knight, and you just need to help our Ryan family explore the wasteland once a year."


    Du Di''an immediately understood his purpose, and wondered: "This should be against the treaty, right? Can I go out to scavenge waste for your family alone?"


    "Of course you can." The white-haired old man smiled and said, "It''s just that this is a private act, and you need to bear the toll of the giant wall yourself. In fact, many nobles have trained some scavengers privately, although they can''t be compared with you regular scavengers. In comparison, it can also make some profits outside the giant wall. You can rest assured that the toll fee for this giant wall will be provided by our family.¡±

 Chapter Thirty-Five: Jenny

    Du Dian was a little moved. The monthly salary of the knights is not low. It is estimated that it is more than the combined monthly salary of the Jules couple. The most important thing is that he can be named in the establishment of the Lane family as a knight. This identity alone , can make the vast majority of civilians look up.


    However, he did not agree immediately. He understood that the higher the reward, the more dangerous it would be to scavenge waste outside the giant wall. Although he heard from the Fino that they only scavenge waste in the safe areas swept by hunters, it is impossible to guarantee that there will be no waste. Other dangers, otherwise, would not have such high returns.


    "I''ll consider this matter." Du Dian pondered.


    Flynn Lane smiled and said: "When you think about it, you are welcome to join at any time. In addition, you probably haven''t found a place to live during this time. If you don''t mind, there are still a few vacant houses in our Lane family''s house. ."


    Du Di''an politely declined: "Thank you for your kindness. I will go on a mission in seven days. During this time, I will go home to visit my parents, and I will not live in the commercial area for the time being."


    "Well, if you need anything in the future, just come to me."


    "I will."


    After the conversation, Flynn Lane left and went to the center of the banquet to chat with other nobles.


    Not long after Flynn Lane left, several nobles found Du Di''an one after another and negotiated with him, but the conditions proposed were not much different from Flynn Lane, and they were all declined by Du Di''an one by one.


    At this time, halfway through the banquet, the melodious music stopped suddenly, a loud applause came, and all the nobles in the hall who were chatting or eating and drinking looked over.


    The one who clapped was a middle-aged aristocrat of about forty years old, with a sturdy figure and a full stomach. He saw everyone''s eyes gathered, with a gentle gentleman''s smile on his face, and said, "Welcome everyone to participate in the establishment of the Mellon Consortium. The eighth party, I hope you have a good time, and today happens to be the birthday of the little girl Melshaya, I hope you can give the little girl a blessing, thank you!"


    In his voice, behind a high platform in the center of the hall leading to the second floor, a girl in a dark red dress slowly walked out, about twelve or thirteen years old, with delicate cheeks and elegant dress, she stood there gracefully, Bowing slightly, he said, "I have seen you uncles and aunts."


    There was a burst of warm applause from the nobles present.


    Du Di''s heart moved slightly. After he returned to the place of residence, he inquired about it. The Mellon consortium is composed of more than a dozen noble families of different sizes. Among them, there are only two nobles who have the right to speak up, but they are Mellon. family, and the Bloom family. And this girl is obviously a member of the Mel family. When he was in the Meishan orphanage, he had heard the name of this family.


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    Moreover, the Knight of Light who judged the alchemist in the desert three years ago, calling himself Melk, is obviously also a member of the Mel family.


    From this, it can be seen how wide the influence of the Mel family is.


    "This is a small gift prepared by our Bailan family for Miss Shaya..." At this time, a young man from the nobles said, holding a delicate red gift box in his hand, gently opened it, and inside was a pair of snow-white silk gloves. The workmanship is extremely refined.


    Melshaya above the steps brightened her eyes and said, "This is the craftsmanship of Master Sydney, thank you, I like it very much."


    The young man smiled and handed the gift box to the servant who came to receive the gift.


    At this time, other nobles offered gifts one after another, along with congratulations.


    "Miss Shaya." A young man in a tan gentleman''s uniform in the crowd laughed, "I''ve always heard that you like poetry. I specially invited Master Teza to write a small poem, I hope you like it."


    "Poetry?" Melshaya''s eyes lit up, a little happy.


    The young man smiled slightly, put on a shelf, and sang softly: "There are tears you shed on the stone, and those hesitant eyes are filled with that dusk, who leaked your inner sadness..."


    After a while, he finished reading a poem and said, "This poem is called "The Sadness of a Young Girl", and it is given to Miss Shaya."


    The audience immediately burst into warm applause, and some nobles applauded loudly on the spot.


    A happy smile appeared on Melshaya''s face, and she said, "As expected of Master Teza''s poem, I like it very much, I am very moved, thank you!"


    ...


    ...


    On the window sill, Du Dian listened to the cheers and felt a little helpless. He didn''t bring anything on him. I hope those people will not notice him, so as not to get into unnecessary trouble again.


    "It really doesn''t work, just take out the poem that my sister used to read to fool it." Du Di''an thought to himself, and suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a figure running past in the manor outside the window sill. If you scold yourself for being an idiot, if you don''t have anything to give, won''t you sneak away first?


    He looked at the nobles. At this moment, their attention was focused on the Mersaya above. It was a rare opportunity. He immediately opened the window and looked outside, which was about two meters high. Without hesitation, he turned over and jumped out like a nimble cat, landed lightly, then pulled down the window and quickly left along the path outside.


    In order to avoid encountering the servants, Du Di''an went around to a more remote place. There were no lights here. At this moment, only the radiance of the stars and the moon shone on the flagstone path, surrounded by neatly trimmed ornamental trees. A small pavilion, I want to sit there, wait until the banquet is almost over, it will not be too late to go back, anyway, I am a small character and will not attract too much attention.


    Shasha~!


    Suddenly, there was the sound of leaves being shaken.


    Du Di''an''s face changed slightly, and he shouted: "Who!"


    The surroundings were quiet, but Du Dian knew that it was definitely not the sound of wind blowing just now. After three years of scavenger training, if he could not distinguish the sound of objects and the wind touching leaves, he would have been eliminated in the practice exam.


    "Come out, I know you are here!" Du Di''an said coldly.


    It didn''t take long for a slender figure to move out from behind a tree that was trimmed like a ball. Du Di''an looked at it in the moonlight, and was immediately stunned. It was a girl about his age, and, looking at the costume, it seemed to be exactly the same. The figure he had seen earlier.


    Du Di''an breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Come out, I have no ill intentions, everyone is out to hide from the limelight, I will not go to inform, you''d better not to inform, otherwise it will not be good for everyone."


    The girl was wearing a white floral gauze skirt. She was a little nervous at first. When she heard Du Di''an''s words, she couldn''t help but be surprised: "Hide from the limelight? You, didn''t my father send me to tell me to go back?"


    Knowing that she had misunderstood, Du Di''an shrugged: "Of course not, I don''t even know you."


    The girl looked at him and seemed to understand that she was thinking too much. She breathed a sigh of relief and patted her chest.


    Du Di''an said angrily: "I can have any enemies, don''t you all have no gifts, come out and avoid them."


    "Ah?" The girl seemed to suspect that she had heard it wrong, and suddenly thought of something, she burst into a smile, and said, "Yes, which family are you from, don''t you know it''s Miss Mel''s birthday today?"


    "Don''t you know?" Du Dian shrugged: "As for the identity, it''s better to keep it a secret."


    The girl walked along the slate to the pavilion, and immediately saw Du Dian''s dress, and said in surprise: "You uniform, are you a scavenger?"


    Du Dian suddenly turned black and said with a straight face: "Yes, but you''d better not go out and talk nonsense, and I won''t talk about you, it''s fair."


    "I won''t tell." The girl chuckled and said, "My name is Jenny, what''s your name?"


    Du Dian thought for a while and said, "Du Dian."

 Chapter 36 "A Flowering Tree"

    "What kind of world is outside the giant wall?" The girl looked at Du Dian curiously and said, "Is there an endless sea and an endless forest that the bard said?"


    Du Di''an turned around and returned to the pavilion, found a chair to sit down, and shrugged: "I just appointed a scavenger, and I haven''t been outside the giant wall yet, but there must be seas and forests."


    "How do you know?" Jenny followed him to the pavilion and sat on the chair opposite the tea table, wondering, "Didn''t you say you haven''t been outside the giant wall?"


    Du Di''an suddenly thought of the old earth, the blue sea and forests he had seen, and the many beautiful scenery. He felt a little sad and murmured: "I have seen it, of course I know."


    "Have you seen it?" Jenny was surprised: "Where did you meet?"


    Du Dian came back to his senses, knowing that he was leaking, and continued: "I saw it in the poetry of the bard, but I believe that those must exist, otherwise, where did the bard know about it? Maybe it''s fantasy?"


    "Do you think so too?" Jenny was a little surprised and said, "I think so, but my father always said that those are all made up by bards, and they don''t exist in reality, and even if they did, they would never exist. Outside the giant wall, he also said that the outside of the giant wall is very dangerous, is that so?"


    Du Dixin thought that most of your father was afraid that you were too curious, so he secretly ran to the giant wall to peek at the scene outside, and said, "The danger does exist."


    "It''s really dangerous?" Jenny''s eyes showed a bit of disappointment.


    Seeing her sad eyes, Du Di''an suddenly felt that he had extinguished a good hope with his own hands. He couldn''t bear it in his heart, and said: "However, although there are dangers, it does not mean that there are no seas and forests. I believe that one day, The danger outside the giant wall will disappear, and we can go out, see the mountains and the sea, and go wherever we want."


    Jenny''s face suddenly glowed, and she said, "Really?"


    "Really!" Du Di''an said seriously.


    With a happy smile on Jenny''s face, she said, "I think so too. I told my father before, but he always told me to dispel such thoughts, and said that outside the giant wall is an unknown place, except for people like you. Except for special personnel, no one else is allowed to enter."


    Du Di''an smiled and said nothing.


    "I really want to go outside the giant wall to see!" Jenny''s face was full of longing. Suddenly, she thought of something, turned her head to look at Du Di''an, and said, "Since the outside of the giant wall is so dangerous, why do you still want to be a scavenger and go to the giant wall? Outside the wall?"


    Du Di Anxin thought, I have to ask you nobles. However, seeing that the other party is still young, it is obvious that he has not been involved in these aristocratic politics, so he said: "There is no reason, maybe it is the same as you, I want to go outside the giant wall to have a look."


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    Jenny looked at him with a hint of admiration on her face, and said, "You are so amazing. Even though we are the same age, you are much braver than me."


    Du Di''an smiled, "Because I''m a boy."


    Hearing this, Jenny couldn''t help blushing, and she secretly raised her eyes to look at Du Dian. Seeing that he didn''t notice her shy look, she was a little relieved, but her heartbeat speeded up slightly, thinking, how can I have a relationship with someone The boy was alone in the garden. If his father knew about it, he would have to teach me a lesson.


    Thinking of this, she immediately prepared to lift her skirt and stand up to say goodbye to Du Di''an.


    Seeing that she didn''t speak for a long time, Du Di''an thought she said something wrong, and said, "Don''t get me wrong, I don''t mean to discriminate against women. There are also many girls among our scavengers. However, I think you should listen to your father. , The outside of the giant wall is really dangerous, and when it is cleaned up in the future, sooner or later, you can go to see the outside world, and I believe that day will not be too late!"


    Through the faint moonlight, Jenny looked at the serious and confident look on the boy''s face, and couldn''t help but froze for a moment, and subconsciously said: "Really?"


    "Well!" Du Dian nodded affirmatively.


    When Jenny heard his firm words, she seemed to be a little infected, and said forcefully: "I believe in you!"


    Du Dian smiled slightly and said, "I also believe in myself."


    Jenny chuckled, the thought of getting up and leaving had long since disappeared, and after laughing, she said: "You know, my dream is to become a priest, although a priest can''t go outside the giant wall, but at least he can judge the giant. All the bad people in the wall, I believe that when there are no bad people in the world, everyone can work together to sweep away the danger outside the giant wall soon."


    Du Dian smiled and said, "Did you study the law?"


    "Of course." Jenny grinned, showing a smug expression.


    Du Dian smiled and said, "It just so happened that I also learned the law."


    Jenny was surprised: "Have you studied the law?"


    "Self-taught." Du Dian added.


    "Do you want to be a priest too?"


    "Well, and the goal is as great as you are!"


    "Great? Clucky yes, our goals are all great!"


    "how old are you?"


    "It''s just eleven."


    "I''m almost twelve."


    The night is getting darker, in the manor, in the flower pavilion, the more they talk, the more engaged they are, unaware that time flies, as if there are endless things to say, from hobbies to their ages, as well as their views on things, they all have something in common, as if found a confidant.


    "One has no ears, the other has no tail, giggling." Jenny covered her stomach, smiled and bent over, completely forgetting to pay attention to the image of aristocrats, said: "What kind of strange song is this, such a strange tune, so interesting, giggling"


    Du Dian spread his hands and said, "Children''s song."


    Jenny laughed again, thinking how could there be such a strange children''s song, and it must not scare the child, but there seems to be no other explanation for the strange lyrics and simple tones except the children''s song.


    Du Dian was just about to say a few more children''s songs, when he suddenly felt that his wrist was bitten by a mosquito and slapped to death with his backhand. Only then did he come to his senses, and he couldn''t help but look back at the direction of the banquet hall.


    Seeing his actions, Jenny also reacted, screaming in her heart, she hurriedly lifted her skirt and got up, and said to Du Di''an: "I''m going back, or Dad will be very angry if he can''t find me."


    Du Di''an was just about to go back and said, "Then you go first, and I''ll go over later, so as not to be seen together."


    Jenny couldn''t help blushing. She turned and ran outside the pavilion. She suddenly thought of something, and turned around and said, "You just said, you have heard a lot of good poems, and I like poems very much. Can you give me one?"


    Du Di''an was stunned for a moment, there was no shelter from the pavilion, and the moonlight shone on her cheeks. At this moment, she suddenly felt that the beauty was as unreal as a fairy. His heart pounded and subconsciously said: "No problem." After reacting, I immediately regretted that all I had heard were Tang poems, which were classical oriental poems, completely different from the poetry genres in this world.


    Suddenly, he thought of the modern poem that his sister often read, and immediately recited softly:


    how to make you meet me


    In my most beautiful moment, for this


    I have been praying to God for five hundred years


    beg it to make us bond


    God turned me into a tree


    grow along the road you must pass


    Du Di''an remembered that the poem was called a flowering tree, and the Buddha in the poem was changed into a god by him. After all, the belief in this world is the Holy See of Light and God the Father, and there is no Buddhism.


    Hearing Du Di''an''s softly recited verses, Jenny was stunned for a moment. After a while, she realized that her face was blushing, and she turned and ran along the path as if to flee, disappearing into the darkness.

 Chapter 37: Two "Blessings"

    Du Di''an counted the time, and waited about ten minutes after Jenny left before going around the garden path. It didn''t take long for him to arrive in front of the banquet hall, and he heard a burst of hearty laughter from a distance. I saw that the door of the banquet hall was completely open, and it seemed that the scene had ended, and nobles came out one after another in groups of three or five.


    Du Dian didn''t expect to come out at the time of the banquet, and secretly thanked the mosquito that was killed by him for biting him in time. He did not enter the banquet hall again, but followed the path beside the main road and walked outside the manor. When he came to the middle part of the main road, and saw that there were no nobles on the road, he immediately trotted over and pretended to come out of the banquet hall, ready to return. look.


    After a while, I came to the outside of the manor, and there were only seven or eight of the large number of noble carriages parked here.


    When Du Di''an saw that Pete''s carriage was still there, he was relieved and walked over.


    There was no one in the carriage, and apparently Pete wasn''t out yet.


    Du Di''an got into the carriage first and waited inside.


    It didn''t take long for Pete to come back drunk and swaying. As soon as he got in the car, he saw Du Dian sitting inside, his tongue numbed by alcohol slurred: "You, why are you here, come, have another drink, I have admired your name for a long time..." After speaking, he swayed and bent down, and actually knelt down for Du Di''an in the carriage.


    Du Dian didn''t know whether to laugh or cry, he quickly helped him up and said, "You drink too much, come and sit and rest for a while."


    "Sir, I will follow your instructions next time..." Pete said vaguely, but leaned in the carriage obediently and sat down.


    Du Di''an looked at the smirk on his drunken face, sighed, lifted the curtain, and said to the driver, "Go back."


    "Yes, my lord." The coachman said respectfully, then shook the rope, and the carriage began to run.


    ...


    ...


    Before coming to the ancient castle where the temporary accommodation was made, after Du Di''an got off the car, he asked the driver to send Pete back to the scavenger headquarters under the Mellon consortium.


    It was getting dark at this moment, Macon and the others had already fallen asleep. Except for the servants who guarded the gate, the maids and domestic servants in the castle had already rested. Du Di''an returned to his room and lay on the bed. Many things that happened today came to his mind, including the anger and suffocation of being humiliated, and the joy and beauty brought by the beautiful girl. He thought about it and gradually fell asleep. .


    The next day, as soon as Du Di''an woke up early in the morning, he saw Pete walking quickly to the castle, carrying a small wooden box in his hand.


    "Good morning, Mr. Pate." Du Di''an greeted him, a little surprised in his heart. He didn''t expect to be so drunk last night, and he was full of energy after one night.


    Pete smiled and said, "I drank too much last night. I heard from the driver that you sent me back."


    "This is what it should be." Du Di''an looked at the small box in his hand and wondered: "What is this?"


    Pate put the box on the table in the living room and opened the box. Inside was a syringe that Dudian had seen. He immediately knew that Pate was here to send them "the blessing of God".


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    "I just picked it up yesterday, and I didn''t have time to give it to you. I don''t need to introduce this thing anymore. You each have one, Dean, you have two copies, one is the basic distribution, and the other is your first month. If you receive it, the second copy will be issued to you today next month." Pete said with a smile.


    Du Dian asked: "Can I take it back and use it myself?"


    "Of course not." Pete shook his head and said, "This is the power given by the Holy See of Light in lieu of God, and it must be used in the presence of witnesses. This is the rule. I am sending these over to be your witnesses."


    Du Dian was a little regretful and wanted to take a copy back to study and study, but now there is no instrument in his hand, and he can''t study anything.


    "Come on, I''ll give it to you first," Pete said, picking up the syringe from the box.


    Du Di''an felt a little uneasy, and said, "This... there are no sequelae, right?"


    Pete''s face became stern, and he said, "I just listen to this. You can''t talk nonsense outside in the future. You are questioning the God of Light."


    Du Di''an naturally understood this, so he said the wording tactfully, instead of directly questioning whether this would have any side effects.


    "Don''t worry, this is a gift from the God of Light. It''s not only permanent, but the scavengers who use it have never had any adverse reactions." After Peet blamed Du Dian, he still answered his words.


    Du Dian was a little surprised, but he didn''t say anything, just secretly awe-inspiring, could the Holy See of Light be able to create a perfect genetic medicine? In this way, wouldn''t it be possible to mass-produce waste scavengers?


    At this time, Pate plunged the syringe into his arm, Du Dian felt no pain, only felt a little numb in his arm. Soon, the red liquid in the syringe was pushed into the body.


    Du Di''an only felt a heat, which suddenly spread from the whole body. When it spread to the limbs, a violent heat flow rushed to the brain in vain, as if the blood from the whole body was gushing into the brain, he couldn''t help roaring, the heat flow immediately After retreating, it flowed into the limbs again, and the limbs were held in great pain, as if they were about to be torn apart, he gritted his teeth and held back the pain.


    Soon, the enthusiasm faded like a tide, and Du Dian looked up and immediately felt the difference. His vision was very sensitive, and he could see the pores on Pete''s face in front of him at a glance.


    Du Dian thought of the power Rorian got, and immediately jumped in place.


    With a whimper, Du Dian felt like he was flying, and jumped to the top of Pete''s head, with the soles of his feet standing at least two meters. He fell back to the ground, raised his hand and grabbed the chair next to him, and suddenly felt as light as catkins and could wave at will.


    "Okay, I''ll try it out later, there''s one more." Pete laughed.


    Du Di''an looked at the second syringe he picked up and couldn''t help asking: "What would happen if all of these were injected, would it become infinitely powerful?"


    Pete smiled slightly and said, "Of course not. The first injection will have a very significant effect, but the more injections, the weaker the effect."


    Although Du Dian expected this, he still had some regrets. If it could grow exponentially, then the Holy See of Light, which mastered these genetic medicines, would be a monster-like existence.


    However, thinking of this, he suddenly felt a chill in his heart. They are just scavengers, and they have such terrifying power. If they are hunters, how terrifying should they be?


    Soon, Pate also injected the second one into Du Di''an''s arm, and the heat flow surged from his body again, but this time it was not as strong as before. Du Di''an only felt a slight tearing pain, and the heat flow sank.


    Du Di''an looked again, and immediately felt that his vision was much clearer, and his strength was estimated to have improved a lot. He thought to himself, even if a tiger is in front of him, it can be killed, right?


    "Go, teach the others to come here." Pete laughed.


    Du Dian nodded slightly and called Macon and others up.


    It didn''t take long for everyone to be injected, and for a while, the morning in the entire ancient castle was extraordinarily noisy, and everyone was jumping around, experiencing the incredible power in their bodies.


    After Pate left, Du Dian returned to his room, packed up, and prepared to return to the residential area.


    "We can stay for three days for free. Are you leaving today?"


    "We also plan to go to the lively street market nearby today!"


    "Why go back in such a hurry, it''s rare to have such an opportunity."


    The three of Macon were a little surprised and persuaded one after another.


    Du Di''an had made up his mind. After saying goodbye to them, he called a carriage and went to the civilian area.


    Before the carriage took him directly to No. 108, Linkang Street in the civilian area, Du Di''an jumped out of the carriage and paid 60 copper coins. He couldn''t help but feel a pain in his heart. The hire price of the carriage in the commercial area was twice as high as that in the civilian area. Of the 100 copper coins given by the Jules and his wife, 90 still remain.


    At this time, Du Di''an suddenly saw another carriage parked at the door, and couldn''t help but be surprised, is it a guest at home?


    He bypassed the carriage and pushed open the white guardrail outside the door. As soon as he arrived at the door, he heard a quarrel coming from inside, and he couldn''t help but stunned, and immediately raised his hand and knocked on the door.


    Soon, the door was opened, and it was Jula who opened the door. She glanced at Du Dian strangely and said, "Who are you?"


    After three years of scavenger training, Du Di''an''s appearance has also undergone tremendous changes. His body is much stronger than before, and his complexion is not so pale, but tanned to a wheatish color, so that Jula didn''t recognize it for a while.


    "Auntie, it''s me." Du Di''an said.


    When Jula heard the little changed voice, her eyes widened and she said in disbelief, "You are Dean?!"


    Du Dian chuckled: "The training is over, I''m back."


    Jula''s eyes suddenly flushed, and she hugged Du Di''an into her arms and said, "You are back, you are finally back. Your uncle and I worry every day, for fear that something will happen to you there, but fortunately..." Speaking of this , immediately pushed Du Dian away, looked him up and down, and was relieved when he saw that his hands and feet were in good condition.


    When Du Di''an saw her exaggeration, he smiled, but his heart was a little warm, and said, "I wanted to bring you some specialties from the commercial district, but I didn''t have any money, so I didn''t buy it."


    "Silly boy, just come back and bring some specialties." Jula smiled and stroked Du Di''an''s hair: "I haven''t seen you for three years, you have grown so tall, you lived there..."


    "Gianni, don''t go too far!" At this moment, an angry voice came from the living room, and Du Di''an immediately heard that it was Gray''s voice.


    Jula''s face changed, and she hurriedly returned to the living room.

 Chapter 38: "The Wall of Boundaries"

    Du Di''an was surprised and followed into the living room.


    Besides Gray, there were two other figures in the living room. One was a middle-aged man with a fat body and a full belly. He wore three or four gold rings on his fingers, and he looked like a rich man. The other was a thin man dressed in a black gentleman. Suit, hair neatly combed, like an aristocrat.


    "Grey, pay attention to your attitude!" When Du Di''an walked in, he just heard the screeching voice of the thin man.


    Gray clenched his fists tightly, looked at him angrily, and said, "We bought this house, and the tax here has long been written clearly in the contract. If you want to increase the property tax, it is not legal at all. !"


    The fat middle-aged man chuckled and said, "Illegal? You are a little tailor, what do you know about the law? This entire Linkang street is my territory. In my territory, what I say is the law, even if you I didn''t even go to the court, and I welcome you to go anytime."


    Gray gritted his teeth and said, "You guys are robbery!"


    "Hmph, you are slandering, slandering, and you have already attacked me personally, I can sue you!" The thin man said coldly.


    At this moment, Jula looked at Gray, who was blushing, and hurriedly held his hand, and said to the fat middle-aged man, "Give us some time to discuss this matter, we can''t afford such a high tax. "


    The fat middle-aged man said indifferently: "You are still sensible, but I have given you a few days. Today is the last day. I will come back in the evening. I hope you will give me a satisfactory answer." He turned his neckline, raised his head slightly, and walked in front of Gray.


    "Wait a minute." At this moment, a figure stood in front of him, it was Du Dian.


    "Huh?" The fat middle-aged man lowered his head, looked at Du Di''an whose head only reached his chin, frowned and said, "Little guy, who are you?"


    At this time, Gray also noticed Du Dian, saw his completely changed appearance, and said in amazement: "Dian? You, are you back?"


    Du Di''an nodded slightly, then looked up at the fat middle-aged man, and said, "I think it''s very hard to run back and forth with your figure, it''s better to talk just once, and we don''t like being visited too much. disturb."


    The fat middle-aged man was stunned for a moment and smiled: "Little guy, you are quite sensible. I heard that Gray has an adopted child, is that you?"


    Du Di''an didn''t answer him, but continued: "First of all, according to Article 6 of Chapter 3 of the Land Law, anyone who buys land and real estate at one time must pay the property tax and house rent at one time. When you buy this house, you have already paid for it, otherwise you won''t get the property certificate for this house, then the problem comes."


    "In the seventh chapter of the fourth chapter of the law, all the authority and taxation of the house belong to the owner of the house, and only the lord of the house has the right to take it back."


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    Du Di''an looked at him and said: "You said that the entire Linkang street is your territory? Can you see the certificate of your territory? Even if you want to collect taxes, you still need to go to the court and show you in the witness of the priest. Is it possible to obtain a tax contract?¡±


    The obese middle-aged man couldn''t help stunned.


    The thin man who followed him was startled for a moment, his face gloomy, and said: "Little guy, what nonsense are you talking about, the lord''s proof is what you want to see?"


    Du Dian looked up at him and said calmly: "If you can''t show the lord''s certificate, please leave and don''t bother again, otherwise, I will arrest you as the criminals who intruded on the residents!"


    Hearing this, several people present were stunned.


    The skinny man reacted and laughed: "Arrest me? Little guy, I think you are young and ignorant, you continue to talk nonsense, be careful I will give you directly to the guards."


    "You don''t have to, I am." Du Dian took out the guard medal with swords and swords, and said indifferently: "Just based on what you just said, I can sue you for slandering the guards and arrest you! As for the crime, I think about it, it is recorded in Article 7 of the law that if you maliciously slander a noble, you will be sentenced to three years in prison, and if you slander a guard, you will be sentenced to two years in prison, and if you attack a guard, you will be sentenced to death!"


    "Which one do you want?" Du Di''an looked up at the two of them.


    The fat middle-aged man and the thin man stared at the guard medal, their eyes widened with disbelief, and they were speechless for a long time.


    The Jula couple couldn''t help but be astonished when they saw this familiar medal. They quickly remembered the purpose of Du Di''an''s three-year training. They looked at each other and saw the excitement and surprise in each other''s eyes. I didn''t expect Du Di''an to succeed!


    "You, are you a guard?" The fat middle-aged man was still in disbelief. It was the first time he had seen such a small guard.


    Du Dian said indifferently: "Are you questioning me?"


    The fat middle-aged man hurriedly shook his head. Although he felt incredible, he still recognized the medal. Moreover, impersonating a guard was a serious crime, not as simple as beheading him directly.


    "This is the first time I''ve seen such a small... such a young and promising guard." The fat middle-aged man laughed dryly.


    Du Di''an said flatly: "This can only mean that you are not a real lord. There are many guards like me. Before reaching the age of sixteen, they will first join the nobles'' guard team for training. After reaching the age, It will be transferred to guard the "Wall of Limits" and the giant wall. "The "wall of boundaries" he refers to is the high wall that separates each area, and among the nobles, it is called the "wall of rich and poor."


    The fat middle-aged man looked a little embarrassed and said, "I, I am really the lord here. My grandfather used to be a great knight. He was sealed in this territory, but..." Having said this, he felt a little sad and didn''t say any more. go down.


    "It''s just that this territory was given by the noble to your grandfather knight, and he is no longer there, so the territory also lost its legitimacy and was taken back. Of course, maybe the noble forgot to take it back, so you continue to use the lord''s Self-identity." Du Di''an said indifferently: "But this is illegal, I think, if you disappear immediately, I can consider not pursuing it."


    The fat middle-aged man and the thin man looked at each other, and immediately bent down and said, "Then we''ll leave first." After that, he moved away from Du Di''an and fled away.


    Before long, the carriage outside the door roared away in the pain of the whip.


    Du Di''an just looked up at Jula and his wife. They haven''t seen each other for three years. The corners of their eyes are a little wrinkled. Calculate their age. They are already thirty. About ten years old.


    The Jula couple came back to their senses and looked at Du Di''an in amazement. They didn''t expect that the trouble that had caused them to be devastated before was solved in just a few words from Du Di''an, and Gray said with joy: "Did you graduate successfully? My son is awesome! I didn¡¯t expect that my Gray¡¯s child would become a guard, haha, I will go to the factory tomorrow and talk to the workers, making them envious.¡±


    Jula rolled his eyes at him, smiled and stroked Du Di''an''s hair, and said, "You child, you are so tanned, you must have had a hard time in the past three years."


    Du Dian smiled slightly and said, "It''s nothing, but I won''t be able to stay for long when I come back this time. I''ll be on a mission in a few days, so I can''t accompany you any more."


    Jula was stunned for a moment, "Performing a mission? What mission, is it dangerous?"


    "It''s not dangerous, don''t worry."


    "That''s good."


    Gray smiled and said, "What danger can there be in being a guard? It''s nothing more than walking around with the nobles. Now that the Holy See of Light is under the protection, how dare those evil demons show their faces."


    Jula said angrily, "Just in case!"


    Gray shook his head with a smile and said nothing.


    That night, Jula prepared a very sumptuous dinner for Du Di''an to celebrate Du Di''an''s return and becoming a guard. After the dinner, Du Di''an said to the two of them: "Auntie, I want to borrow some money, this time a little more."


    Jula smiled and said, "Tell us what to borrow, how much do you want?"


    "Ten silver coins." Du Dian thought for a while and said that the money should be enough to buy a lot of black powder raw materials. After all, he will go outside the giant wall next. In case of any danger, he has something to protect himself.

 Chapter 39: The Alchemist Apprentice

    "So much?" The Jules couple were stunned.


    One silver coin is equal to one hundred copper coins, and Gray''s monthly salary is only about two silver coins. As for Jula, the salary is slightly higher, but it is only about three silver coins. Unless you visit the rich or the lord occasionally, you will get some extra commissions. Ten silver coins are basically equivalent to their two-month salary.


    "What do you want so much money for?" Gray frowned.


    "The task is required. After the task is over, I will return it to you." Du Dian said earnestly.


    Jula and Gray looked at each other and said helplessly: "Okay, it''s your celebration fee, but you have to promise me that you won''t use it for bad things."


    Du Di''an breathed a sigh of relief. He also knew that the money was indeed a lot. The Jula couple could give him all because of his status as a guard. Otherwise, how could an ordinary child spend two months with his parents? Salary, and not saying why.


    the next day.


    With ten silver coins in his arms, Du Dian went out early in the morning and came to the Adventurer''s Market in the southern district of the residents.


    Whether it is a slum area, a residential area, or a commercial area, it is divided into four areas, east, west, north and south. Each area is extremely vast, and the Linkang Street where Du Di''an lives is located in the southeast area of the residential area. The so-called adventurer''s market is a free trade market for civilians outside the chamber of commerce with a formal business license. The goods here are all materials found by civilians from the outer edge of the living area, near the giant wall.


    In the outer edge, the nuclear radiation in the air is dense, and only some adventurers are willing to go. However, the adventurer profession often does not last for a long time. Generally, they retire after working a few times, and use the money they earn to support their eroded body and gradually age.


    However, Du Dian doesn''t have to worry about the nuclear radiation there. He checked the information. The set of black soft armor he received was made of lead. Lead is a metal with extremely high density, which can effectively resist radiation and can come and go at will. Close to the outer edge of the giant wall, after all, compared with the outside of the giant wall, the radiation in the outer edge is not worth mentioning at all.


    However, although there is uniform protection, it will breathe the polluted air there, and the outer edge is too far from the living area. Hiring a carriage used to be a lot of money. In addition, there are animals lurking there that are eroded by radiation. , very dangerous, Du Dian was too lazy to waste time to go there in person.


    After spending five copper coins in the carriage money, Du Di''an came to the adventurer''s market. There were many carriages going around here, and it was very lively. The noise of hawking could be heard from a distance, and the carpets on the ground were full of All kinds of things, some are clothes and dolls made by others, some are stones of strange colors, and some are dried fish slices.


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    Du Di''an walked along the aisle.


    Half an hour later, Du Di''an finally found a few rough sulphur ore and saltpeter like white ice crystals in front of a booth. As for the charcoal powder, he could make it himself without wasting money to buy it.


    The boss is a middle-aged man with dark complexion and a dry figure. His hair is disheveled, his eyes are sunken, and there are some red spots on his hands, as if he has contracted some kind of disease. Although he is covered by long sleeves, when he raises his hand, Still inadvertently revealed.


    When Du Di''an saw it, he knew that the radiation content in this person''s body was extremely high.


    After some haggling, Du Dian finally bought all the saltpeter and sulfur ore in his booth at the price of one silver coin and twenty copper coins. Among them, the saltpeter was more valuable and cost one silver coin.


    "This sulphur ore has to be extracted by yourself. After the extracted sulphur is ground into powder, it should only be enough for a sachet of **. In addition, when you go out to scavenge waste, you are not allowed to carry other things with you except food and basic weapons. There is not much black powder brought in, so let''s buy this first for the time being." Du Di thought with confidence.


    "Little guy, these things are quite heavy. Did you call for a carriage, or did your adult come to help you carry them? Do you want me to carry them for you?" The black and thin middle-aged man said with a smile after receiving the money.


    "No." Du Dian picked it up and lifted the linen bag. The heavy weight of about 20 pounds inside was as light as nothing in his hands. He turned and left, and continued to look for grinding tools.


    The black and thin middle-aged man stared at him, a little stunned.


    Not long after, Du Dian bought some basic tools for alchemy at other booths. In the eyes of ordinary people, the role of these tools is naturally not related to alchemy, but tools for ordinary work, such as the stone wheel used by Du Di''an to grind sulfur, which is generally used by doctors to grind medicine.


    After buying almost everything, Du Di''an went to the market, and by the way, he knew what materials were there. If you need it in the future, you can come here to buy it directly. At noon, Du Di''an turned around and left, ready to go back to eat.


    "Boss, you can sell this broken stone to me for a copper coin, please!" Suddenly, a young boy''s voice sounded.


    Du Di''an turned his head and saw a burly boy half a head shorter than himself standing in front of a booth next to him, holding a small linen bag in his hand, and at the moment he was holding a rough black stone the size of a fist.


    "No, no!" The stall owner, a short and thin young man, shook his head repeatedly and said, "This is iron ore. Although the weight is quite small, it sells at least two copper coins."


    "Boss, even if this is iron ore, it''s just ore, not iron. You can''t extract much from such a small piece. You can make a lot of money with a copper coin." The strong boy changed his strategy and lobbied: "Also, so A small piece is not needed in the smelting factory at all, and no one will come to buy it, you can still make money by selling it, and no one will buy it, you can only lose it."


    The short and thin young man was persuaded by him, hesitant, and finally said: "Okay."


    The burly boy grinned, paid quickly, put the black stone in the linen bag, and turned away with the bag on his back.


    Du Dian retracted his gaze and was about to turn away. He turned around in vain and looked at the wrist of the sturdy boy carrying the linen bag, where there was a tiny black hook pattern.


    "Alchemy apprentice?" Du Dian was a little stunned. He didn''t expect to meet an alchemist apprentice here. In Rothyard''s notes, he learned about the alchemist''s way of life and some habits. The most impressive thing is that every An alchemist will have an exclusive tattoo pattern on his body, which is the symbol of an alchemist and one of the basic ways to get started!


    The method of tattooing here is very ancient. Use plants or medicinal powder to mix black water, and inject it into the skin through a needle. The pattern outlined is arbitrary, even a small dot or a crooked line without a shape is considered a sign.


    Although not only alchemists, but also nobles and the Holy See of Light mastered tattooing methods, but their tattoos were different from alchemists in that they would never use "black" as a pigment.


    Once the black tattoo is tattooed, whether it is a noble or a member of the Holy See of Light, it will be treated as an alchemist. It can be said that this is an absolute proof!


    Similarly, if you don''t have black tattoos on your body, even if you are a real alchemist, you will not be recognized by other colleagues.


    Du Dian glanced at the direction where the sturdy boy was leaving, his eyes flickered slightly, and finally he carried the linen bag and quietly chased after him.

 Chapter 40: Black Fire

    The linen bag this burly boy was carrying was small and bulging. He obviously hadn''t strengthened his body like Du Di''an. It was very difficult to carry it on his shoulders.


    Du Dian''s vision is more than three times that of ordinary people, and he follows far behind without worrying about being detected.


    "At his age, he should only be an alchemy apprentice, but I don''t know whether he uses it himself or helps his teacher buy alchemy raw materials." Du Di''an''s eyes showed a bit of thought. At this time, the strong boy stopped a car at the intersection. The carriage, the carriage and the carriage leave.


    Du Di''an''s face changed slightly, and he quickly followed.


    In this bustling and prosperous area, the speed of the carriage is not fast. Du Dian trotted behind him with a linen bag on his back. His strengthened body and daily training for three years made his endurance far surpass that of ordinary people, and he followed continuously. After seven or eight streets, Du Dian felt breathless. When he was about to hire a carriage to track, he suddenly saw the carriage in front of him stopped.


    Du Di''an stopped quickly, and saw the sturdy boy jumped out of the carriage, turned around and paid the copper coins, and then entered the alley by the roadside.


    Du Di''an immediately walked over, pretending to be passing by, and turned his head to look into the alley. He couldn''t help but be astonished. He saw that the alley was a dead end, and it was blocked by a wall, and the burly boy disappeared in the alley. inside.


    what the hell?


    Du Di''an raised his eyebrows slightly. After all, he was a person who was influenced by science. Naturally, he would not believe that there would be the kind of magic in fairy tales in reality. He entered the alley and looked carefully on the ground.


    This sealed alley, apparently few people enter, the dust is everywhere, and there are several buckets of garbage piled up at the entrance of the alley. Because of this, Du Di''an''s sharp vision strengthened, and he immediately saw the traces of footprints in the dust on the ground, and this The traces continued to spread forward and stopped at a wall in the middle of the alley.


    Du Di''an''s eyes flashed, and he came to the wall to take a closer look. He couldn''t help but startled. He saw that this was a wall. It was clearly a piece of fabric painted the same color as the wall.


    "This kind of hidden trick is really an alchemy apprentice." Du Dian reached out and touched it, but saw that the back of the fabric was hard, and most of it was held by some stone, so it would not be dented and exposed by mice or wind.


    Du Di''an secretly took note of this place, turned and exited the alley. Obviously, this is the stronghold of an alchemist. If it is reported to the Holy See of Light, he will be able to receive a lot of merits as a scavenger immediately. However, he has no interest in doing such a thing, on the contrary, he is going to infiltrate the small circle of this stronghold and understand the alchemists of this world.


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    After all, what he knew about the alchemists came from Rothyard''s handbooks. Although there were a lot of things recorded on them, many of them were only information mastered by senior alchemists, and there were few records of basic things.


    However, if you want to join the circle of alchemists, you must become an alchemist.


    The first step of the alchemist''s proof is the black tattoo.


    Du Dian has not thought about tattooing himself, nor is he ready to join the circle of alchemists so soon. After all, according to Rothyard''s records, the circle of alchemists communicates in other identities. The purpose of this is, I was worried that if any of them were exposed, they would be arrested by the Knights of Light, tortured and confessed to others.


    "After returning from outside the giant wall, I will officially consider this." Du Dian glanced at the alley, turned to the intersection, stopped the carriage, and headed to the slum. He learned a principle since he was a child, and doing a lot of things at the same time affects efficiency.


    Soon, the carriage came to the boundary wall of the slum, Du Dian jumped off the carriage and returned to the long-lost slum. As soon as he approached, the strong smell in the air made him frown slightly, and there was a hint of helplessness in his heart. , can only endure this strange smell, follow the trail to a more remote place, and find a dilapidated small hotel to rent.


    In the hotel room, Du Dian took out several raw materials in the linen bag. The first step was to extract the sulphur ore from the sulphur. He was going to use the most primitive extraction method to heat the sulphur ore with high temperature, dissolve it, and extract it. The sulfur solution in the upper layer is cooled, that is, sulfur, and then ground into sulfur powder with a stone wheel.


    Du Dian and the hotel owner wanted a brazier. Although it was the rainy season at the moment, it was strange to have a brazier for heating, but under the copper coins given by Du Dian, the hotel owner agreed very happily. When he took out the dusty brazier in the warehouse, he returned it to him. a few pieces of coal.


    After Du Di''an returned to the room, he locked the door with his backhand, lit the fire with the fire sickle given by the hotel owner, burned the coal, and then built the sulphur ore on it. After burning for a while, the fire was too weak, and Du Di''an simply bought one from the hotel owner. Big bags of coal.


    The melting point of sulfur is not high, and it melted quickly. Du Dian took out the utensils purchased in advance and began to hold the sulfur solution.


    The room was full of the strange smell of sulfur. Du Di''an was secretly glad that he was prepared and put on the mask. Due to the nuclear radiation, the mask did not seem to disappear along with the technological fault, but appeared in people''s lives all the time.


    It has to be said that different environments promote different development.


    Du Dian thought that he would make a gas mask like Rothyard in the future. For alchemists, they often deal with various substances and inevitably ingest some toxic substances. The effect of masks is minimal, only used by alchemy apprentices. Just use it.


    In the evening, Du Di''an finally got the ground sulfur powder and fire nitrate. As for the charcoal, he was going to go back and make it himself. This thing is simple.


    "I didn''t expect that it would be so tiring to make the oldest black powder." Du Dian looked at his clothes that were smudged with coal, and smiled bitterly, suddenly longing for his own alchemy room one day.


    "I hope I can make a lot of money by going outside the giant wall this time!" Du Di''an wiped the ashes on his face, and his fighting spirit was high.


    ...


    ...


    In the blink of an eye, seven days passed.


    The night before the mission, after Du Di''an said goodbye to Jula and his wife, he sat in the black carriage sent by the Mellon consortium''s scavenger headquarters, returned to the business district, and lived in the old ancient building as they watched. In the castle, Macon and others were brought along with him, as well as other scavengers who graduated together.


    "I heard that we will leave early tomorrow." Macon said excitedly: "Tomorrow I will be able to go outside the giant wall. I wanted to go and see it when I was young, but I was scared by the terrible stories they told. ."


    "You''d better save it. Although the outside of the giant wall is not as scary as they say, it is definitely dangerous." Zach said.


    Sham smiled slightly, looked at what Du Dian put on the bed, and said, "Dian, what is this that you brought?"


    "Toys." Du Di''an said casually, and glanced at the black fire explosive tube he had made in the past seven days, thinking that it was impossible not to be taken with it when it was packaged like this.

 Chapter 41: Step outside the wall

    The next morning, when the sky was bright, Du Di''an and others were woken up and gathered outside the castle.


    There are more than a dozen black horses parked here. Du Di''an already knows that these extremely tall black horses are called "black-toothed horses". They have strong disease resistance and can move outside the giant wall for a short time.


    "Get on the horse, get ready to go." Pete instructed, riding a tall horse like a handsome knight.


    Du Di''an and others each picked a black-toothed horse, turned over and jumped on it. If their bodies were not strengthened, they would have to borrow a ladder to ride such a big horse, but now they can get on it with just a little effort. .


    "Let''s go!" Pete shouted lowly, with his legs between the horse''s belly, and ran first.


    Du Dian and others pulled the reins and followed closely behind.


    These black-toothed horses are professionally trained, not as scary as they appear, obedient and extremely easy to handle.


    There was still some wet fog on the street in the early morning, and the sound of horses'' hooves was very crisp. Under the leadership of Pete, Du Di''an and others galloped all the way, along the street, and gradually ran to the outer edge of the business district. The outline of the vague, distant giant wall gradually became clear, and the black shadow was like a crawling giant beast in the morning fog, giving people an indescribable sense of awe and oppression.


    In the outer edge of the commercial area, like the residential area, there are large areas of uncultivated wasteland. The land is desolate, mainly sandy soil and waste soil. It is not suitable for cultivation and cultivation, and naturally it is not suitable for people to live in.


    When they stepped into the desolate radiation zone on the outer edge, the black-toothed horses that everyone sat down became restless, both excited and manic, and their running speed suddenly accelerated. After walking straight for more than ten minutes, the huge Sylvia wall behind the morning fog gradually became clear in everyone''s field of vision, and as it became clearer, the huge black oppression was deeply imprinted. in the hearts of all.


    This is a huge wall so towering that the top can hardly be seen. The closer you get, the less you can see the height of the giant wall. It seems to lead to the depths of the clouds. No traces of construction can be seen, just like a complete natural boulder!


    This is... a giant wall!


    Including Du Di''an, everyone opened their mouths and looked shocked. When they came to the front of the giant wall, everyone only felt that they had become as small as ants. To the entire giant wall, it was like a grain of sand!


    "Okay...high!" Macon raised his head, his neck folded almost ninety degrees, but he still couldn''t see the top of the giant wall.


    Zach said blankly: "This, this is the giant wall built by our ancestors?"


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    Everyone was shocked by this great and magnificent project.


    Du Di''an felt the deepest. He knew very well how amazing it was to build such a huge wall in front of him. Even in the old times, it was extremely difficult to do. It took countless manpower and time, and the disaster broke out. Extremely suddenly, there was no time to give people the opportunity to build such a super shelter. He could not imagine that those who survived the nuclear bomb explosion alone could build such an incredible architectural marvel.


    "This is the Sylvia wall that shelters us. It was built by our ancestors and the gods." With a hint of pride in his eyes, Pete turned to look at the crowd, and said with a smile, "Come with me, little guys." Lightly lifted the horse rope, approached the giant wall, stopped when it was about 100 meters away, turned over and dismounted, looked around on the ground, and soon saw the target, walked over and bent over to mention it.


    With a creak, the sound of the heavy iron door being pulled open, I saw that under the sand here, there was a huge iron door. It was lifted up by Pete''s amazing arm strength. Below the iron door was a staircase leading to the ground.


    "Come in," Pete said.


    Everyone was a little surprised, but they dismounted quickly and entered the tunnel under the iron gate.


    Pete was the last one to come in, and he closed the iron door. Everyone felt isolated from the world, and they couldn''t help but panic. They saw the tunnel steps ahead spread into the darkness, as if leading to hell. There were faint oil lamps on the walls. Cold air poured out from the tunnel, accompanied by a whistling sound, like a ghost crying.


    "Me, aren''t we going outside the giant wall?" A girl turned her head and said timidly.


    Pete smiled and said, "Why, you''re scared like this? It seems that fellow Tuob, he hasn''t trained your courage well in the past three years."


    Du Di''an said: "Is it possible to enter the outside of the giant wall from here? Isn''t it from above, there is no door?"


    "Of course not." Pete urged: "Go quickly, they are all waiting for you."


    Du Dian said in surprise: "Is there anyone else?"


    "Of course, although you are a regular scavenger who graduated, but after all, it is the first time to go outside the giant wall. The headquarters has arranged two seniors for your team this time to help and support you. In addition, according to the usual practice, it will be included in your team. There are twenty scavengers cultivated by the consortium, although some of their professional knowledge is slightly less than yours, but they have gone to the outside of the giant wall a lot and have more experience than you. Te laughed.


    Du Dian was stunned for a moment and said nothing.


    At this time, everyone went down the steps, and the steps were unimaginably deep, at least a hundred meters. When they finally reached the bottom, there was a spacious underground passage in front of everyone. The passage was silent, and the oil lamps on both sides were quietly shining, reflecting some stone carvings on the wall.


    "This is Tike, the Goddess of Harvest. "Pete pointed to a graceful and graceful woman on the wall, and said, "Pray well and wish you a fruitful trip." "


    Du Dian and others will see these goddess stone statues in the square of the Holy See of Light and some intersections in residential areas. .


    "This is the "Goddess of the Hunt". "Pete pointed to another beautiful and valiant woman next to him, and said: "Every time the hunters go out, they will worship the goddess of hunting and bless them with hunting." " Said, taking the lead and walking forward.


    Du Dian and others finished their prayers and followed behind him.


    This spacious underground passage is extremely long, about two or three hundred meters in length. At the end of the passage is an identical step. Everyone follows the steps up. After a while, they come to the end of the top of the steps. There is also a huge iron gate. It had already been opened at this moment, like a skylight.


    When Du Dian followed Pete out, he immediately saw that it was a desolate and dry grass, with more than two dozen figures sitting or standing, waiting more than ten meters away.


    "Finally here, Pete, you are slow enough." At this moment, a light laughter came, and the speaker was a young man in black soft armor, with a tall and straight body, wearing a two-foot dagger at his waist. The black mask was pulled up to the chin.


    Pete smiled and said, "What''s the hurry, it''s still early."


    The young man in black soft armor smiled slightly, glanced at Du Dian and others, and said, "I heard that there is a seed with good qualifications among the newcomers this time, and is there any hope of becoming a hunter?"


    Pete raised his hand and patted Du Dian on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "It''s him, you have to take care of one or two more along the way."


    The young man in black soft armor looked at Du Dian and smiled: "No problem, it''s alright, it''s not too early, we''re going to leave, we''ll have a drink with you when we come back, remember to treat."


    "You ask me every time, you bitch." Pete scolded and said to Du Dian and others: "I wish you all the best, remember not to act on your own, don''t leave the team, I hope to see everyone come back safely in ten days. "Speaking, turned around and entered the underground passage to leave.


    Du Di''an followed his figure and saw that there was still the towering giant wall behind him. I didn''t expect that the way they came out was from the channel dug at the bottom of the giant wall''s foundation.

 Chapter 42: Area 8

    "My name is Scott, this is my partner, Mia." After Pete left, the young man in black soft armor pointed to another slender and tall woman in black armor next to him, and said to Du Dian and others: "In these ten In the scavenging of the sky, we are the captain of this operation, and everyone should follow my command, if something goes wrong, it will not be good for everyone, and if you return to the consortium, there will be no small punishment."


    Hearing the punishment, Macon, Zach and several other surly children immediately obeyed and complied with their promises honestly.


    Scott said to Du Di''an: "Little guy, what''s your name?"


    "Dudian."


    "The potential is good." Scott nodded slightly and said, "But don''t be arrogant. In front of the god of death, potential is meaningless. You will follow me later, and I will tell you something that needs attention."


    Is this what it means to teach by hand? Du Di''an couldn''t help but greatly increased his favorability to this person, nodded slightly, and expressed his understanding.


    When the people behind heard this, how could they not know that this was to focus on cultivating Du Di''an. For a time, many people were secretly jealous, but they were just angry and didn''t say anything.


    After all, Du Di''an''s seed identity is there, and he also received two blessings, whether it is force or identity, they can''t shake it. Moreover, there are three brothers in the same room behind Du Di''an, who are the strongest and most united group of them. Even children who are short-tempered and irrespective of the consequences do not dare to provoke Du Di''an and Mei, Zha, Sand three.


    "Well, this is your dry food and water for the past ten days. Each of you will take one for yourself. This time I will bring it for you. Next time you go to the headquarters to get it yourself." Scott pointed to a dozen black people on the ground next to him. backpack said.


    Du Di''an looked at the black traveler''s backpack, mentioned one before, untied the rope, and saw that there were some mud ball-like things in the backpack bag. He had seen it at Jula''s house. It was a mashed potato ball. It tasted very bad, but It¡¯s easy to be full¡­ In other words, when you eat the next one, you lose your appetite and then eat the second one.


    Mei, Zha, and Sha followed Du Di''an and quickly picked them up, choosing three backpacks that looked slightly larger.


    Seeing that the people behind had to choose the same way as the three of them, Scott laughed: "Don''t choose, they all have the same weight, this is given by the headquarters, there will never be a mistake, use your cleverness in the back. Bar."


    Mei, Zha, and Sha sneered.


    "What is this of you?" At this time, Scott noticed the black powder tube stuck in Du Dian''s waist.


    "Small gadgets, not worth mentioning." Du Di''an said: "It won''t hinder me."


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    Seeing him say that, Scott nodded, stopped talking, turned to the twenty consortium scavengers in the distance and said, "Come here and gather, ready to go."


    These twenty consortium scavengers are all adults, with dark complexion, and some are older than Scott. At this moment, under Scott''s call, they all gathered together. Their standard soft armor is the same as that of Du Di''an and others. The same is true for short sword weapons. Obviously, with the strong financial resources of the consortium, the supply of these hardware equipment can still be guaranteed.


    "Boss Sco, which district are we going to today?" a skinny young man asked.


    "District 8." Scott turned to the taciturn black armored woman ''Mia'' and said, "It''s not early, shall we go?"


    Mia nodded slightly.


    Scott waved, took the lead in opening the way, and said to Du Dian and other newcomers behind: "This outer edge area has been completely emptied, you don''t have to worry about anything, save your physical strength first."


    Hearing this, Du Dian and others thought the same, the tense muscles gradually loosened, and they looked around at the surrounding environment.


    There is a wasteland nearby, and the ground is quite humid. Du Di''an noticed before that a lot of moss has climbed on the huge wall behind, which is completely different from the sandy terrain behind the huge wall.


    "Is this the outside of the giant wall? It''s completely different from what I imagined. I thought there were deserts everywhere." Macon, who was behind Du Di''an, looked around and said in surprise.


    Zach said with a smile: "Now you don''t have to worry about the water source. You can squeeze out the water by digging a hole in any place."


    Scott in front heard what he said, glanced back at him, and said, "There are puddles everywhere on the ground. You don''t need to dig them, so I''m afraid you won''t dare to drink them."


    "Huh?" Zach was stunned.


    Du Di''an explained to him: "The radiation outside this giant wall is too high, even the water filtered by the soil is not drinkable. If you want to drink water, you need at least a deep water source below tens of meters to be suitable for the human body. We need to dig a few dozen meters with the strength now, which is the same as digging a few meters in the desert before.


    Hearing Du Dian''s words, Zach and several other children with puzzled expressions came to a realization.


    Scott looked back at Du Dian, said nothing, and continued to lead the way. After walking for about ten miles, they suddenly came to a place with less vegetation on the ground. To be precise, they came to a ruin.


    Seeing this ruin, Du Dian was stunned.


    This... is actually a broken city?


    In front of him, there was actually an asphalt street, but the street was covered with moss and lush vegetation. On both sides of the street were high-rise concrete buildings, and there were also two or three storeys of shops. At this moment, they all collapsed and were dilapidated, and some were crumbling on one side. The ground wall is isolated, covered with vegetation vines and moss, as if in a few years, it will be completely buried by these lush plants.


    On the desolate streets, there are some broken clothes scattered. These messy clothes obviously have a very long age. They have been soaked in the disaster rain and covered with dust. They have long since turned into hard and black stone-like objects, only roughly shape outline.


    Du Dian was completely stunned.


    This... is exactly what a ruined city looks like!


    Could it be that this is the appearance of the earth three hundred years after the outbreak of the disaster?


    The prosperity of the past, the lights of civilization, the footprints of human beings all over the earth... Could it be that just like the ruins in front of me, only the empty shells after the disaster are left?


    He suddenly felt as if something was blocking his chest, he couldn''t breathe, and his eyes were a little wet.


    "Dian, Dean?" Seeing that Du Dian suddenly stopped, Macon couldn''t help patting him on the shoulder.


    Du Dian came back to his senses and saw that Scott and Mia had walked into the street ahead, and quickly followed. However, when his soles stepped into this asphalt street covered by vegetation, he felt all kinds of feelings in his heart. The thoughts of his parents and sisters filled his mind like flames, but he understood very sadly that what passed away would never be forgotten again. I can''t come back, this is reality, just as realistic as the ruins I see in front of me!


    "This is District 9, which has already been scavenged." Seeing that the people behind him did not keep up in time, Scott turned around and waved: "Follow up quickly, don''t waste your life."


    Du Di''an pursed his lips slightly and lowered his head to follow him.


    Passing along the way, Du Di''an saw that the street had been scavenged and extremely clean. Basically, except for the collapsed houses, there were no items left. There should be many scrapped cars on such a spacious street, but there is not a single one here. See, obviously, as Scott said, they have been scavenging back.


    It''s just that after these old technology products are picked up, why is the technology in the giant wall still so backward?


    Could it be that it has been corroded for three hundred years in this place with severe nuclear radiation, and it has no research value?


    He followed Scott and Mia, like a ghost, looking at everything that was once familiar, but could only be silent.

 Chapter 43: Monsters

    "Did anyone live here before?" Mei, Zha, Sha and the others looked at the broken walls on both sides of the street covered with vegetation, and they were a little surprised. From the traces of these broken walls, they could still see what used to be residential buildings, but the architectural styles were very different.


    "Of course." Scott looked up at the surrounding ruins and said, "This used to be the place where our ancestors lived, but it was invaded by disasters and is now desolate. However, there are still things that our ancestors used to live here, Our role is to bring these things back to the consortium."


    "Where the ancestors lived..." Hearing Scott''s words, Macon and the others were a little surprised and excited, and looked at everything around them curiously.


    Du Dian saw a map of the parchment scroll in Scott''s hand, and turned his head to look around the space between his arms. He saw a crooked route on the map. In the center, there was a huge square pattern. , with the words "Sylvia Giant Wall" written. Outside this giant wall, there are irregular circles outlined by curved lines, marked with numbers.


    "No. 0, No. 1..." Du Di''an glanced at it and found that these numbers were repeated. There were six or seven in the "Zero Zone" alone. However, these signs and circles were outlined in different colors, like a rainbow. Generally gorgeous.


    Scott saw Du Dian observing the map and smiled: "This is the scavenger map outside the giant wall. After the hunters of each consortium sweep out the area, they will mark and divide the site, like the area of our Mellon consortium, All are marked with red lines and handwriting, and the other green and yellow ones belong to other consortiums, and there are records on the back of the map, green represents the military department, and yellow is the Huasheng consortium."


    Du Di''an nodded slightly. When he saw these circles with different colors, he had already guessed this and asked, "What is the gray area outside?"


    "This is a place that the hunters have not yet swept out." Scott smiled slightly and said seriously: "You must not step into these gray areas, where it is extremely dangerous, even the hunters may die."


    "Dangerous?" Du Dian was a little curious and said, "What is the danger?"


    "Monster!" Scott said softly.


    Du Di''s head jumped, monster?


    At this time, Scott passed a corner, and there was a traffic light collapsed on the street here, but it was already covered with vegetation and entangled with many vines, so it was not collected by the scavengers.


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    "Area 8 is in front." Scott looked at the street in front of the corner. It was still in ruins, but because it was close to the center of the city, there was less vegetation, a lot of ruins, and collapsed houses, all of which were exposed and desolate. The damage caused by the aftermath of the earthquake can be seen everywhere on the streets of the city, the streets are cracked, and there are many deep pit-like marks on the ground.


    "Everyone, be careful." Scott''s expression became solemn, he pulled out the dagger from his waist, and said, "The eighth area is the area that the Hunter adults just cleaned up, we are the second group to enter here, although the harvest will be It is very rich, but it is also likely to encounter some residual small monsters, don''t be attacked by them, or you will be infected by magic."


    The newcomers such as Du Dian and Macon couldn''t help but feel a little nervous. Following Scott, they took out their weapons, held them tightly in their hands, and glanced vigilantly at the surrounding environment and the fluffy vegetation near the street.


    When he followed Scott into the center of the street, Du Di''an saw a new wooden road sign inserted on the side of the road, with a blood-red "No. 8" written on it, representing the No. 8 area under the Mellon consortium ahead.


    At a glance, Du Di''an saw that the street in front was obviously not cleaned, and he could vaguely see a bunch of green vegetation. From the outline, most of the cars were scrapped under the vegetation. His heart skipped a beat, if there was a car , Naturally there are also generators. Although more than 300 years have passed, these things have long been reduced to scrap iron under the scorching rain and ultraviolet rays, but some well-preserved parts may be found!


    Scott whispered: "Under these green vegetation, there are some large supplies. When we return, we will find a way to bring them back. First, we will find a settlement to live in and use it as the base camp for these ten days, and then separately search for supplies. "Speaking, passing by these scrapped cars covered in green vegetation.


    Du Dian and the others and the twenty consortium scavengers followed closely. When everyone walked away, no one noticed that a pale and dry hand was stretched out of the window of one of the cars covered with thick vegetation. , struggling, grabbing everyone who has gone away!


    ...


    ...


    At the end of the street, here is a crossroads, with collapsed street lamps and huge billboards on the ground, but it is already covered with vegetation. Scott looked up, picked a slightly complete three-story building, and said, "Let''s go here, first clean up the materials inside and gather them." After speaking, he led the team to walk towards the three-story building first. .


    "Ah!" In vain, an exclamation sounded, it was a girl behind Du Di''an''s team, she pointed to the ground at the door of the building in horror, and trembled: "Blood, blood!"


    Everyone saw that there was a pool of blood on the ground. Although it had dried up, from the color point of view, it was obviously newly left behind. After all, it was difficult to keep the blood on the ground for too long under the washing of the disaster rain.


    Du Dian''s face changed slightly, thinking of the monster Scott said earlier, and subconsciously grabbed the black gunpowder attached to his waist.


    The other children became nervous when they saw the blood on the ground.


    Scott frowned and said: "What''s the fuss about, I said, there are monsters in these places, this is obviously the blood left by the hunter when he killed the monsters, don''t be surprised again, rookie!" For other rookie scavengers, his patience is obviously not as high as for Du Di''an.


    Mia next to him stepped forward and pushed open the door of the building. The door was made of glass, but the glass had already been broken. It seemed to be a shop. Layout and a few counters like something.


    Du Dian followed Scott and entered, only to see thick dust accumulated on the floor and walls of this dilapidated shop. After a long period of accumulation, the dust has long been as dry and hard as a layer of soil.


    Scott used the handle of the dagger to poke away the vegetation on the counter, only to see some dusty gold jewelry in the glass cabinet inside. Scott''s eyes lit up, and he immediately smashed the glass with the hilt of the sword. , picked up the jewelry inside, wiped off the dust on it with his clothes, revealing the golden luster, he bit it with his teeth, and his face showed surprise again.


    Du Di''an watched silently, knowing that these jewelry were picked up by him, and most of them would get a very generous extra commission. After all, these gold jewelry are the favorite of the nobles.

 Chapter 44: Dead Corpse

    "It''s gold!" Macon, Zach and others also noticed the accessories on the counter, showing a bit of excitement on their faces.


    When Scott heard the words of a few people, his smile faded, and he turned his head lightly, and said, "Let me explain first, although everyone is a group, the materials picked up are all calculated separately. This has always been the case. Since the rules, they are very clear about this, but I didn''t mean to bully you." Said, Nuzui pointed to the twenty consortium scavengers.


    When Macon and the others heard the words, their expressions changed, and they turned their heads to look, only to see a thin young man led by the twenty consortium scavengers nodded and said, "Yes, the materials picked up are all based on their abilities, so don''t think about being lazy, who is it? If you are lucky, you will find as many as you can."


    Hearing this, Macon and the others were suddenly a little frustrated. There is no doubt that the gold ornaments here were found by Scott first, and naturally they were his materials, so they couldn''t get any commission.


    Du Dian was also a little disappointed when he heard this rule, but he quickly regained his spirits. This rule is actually fair to their newcomers. With this rule protection, at least the materials they picked up will not be used by others. To share, in front of him, it was just that Scott had better luck, and he just picked a place to settle down, which happened to be a gold shop, and he made a lot of money.


    At this time, Scott smashed all the glass on the cabinet, took out all the accessories inside, and stacked them in one of the cabinets, then clenched the dagger again, and said, "Go upstairs first and clean it up. "Speaking of this, what I remembered, I turned back to Du Dian and others and said: "The materials that everyone picked up, others had better not try to steal or use other dirty methods to seize, if the owner of the materials died in the process of scavenging, The supplies he picked up will only belong to the consortium and will not be shared."


    Du Di''an knew that he was admonishing these newcomers not to be obsessed with profit and to use some crooked minds, and at the same time secretly appreciated that the consortium established such a rule, which has indeed largely avoided scavengers from killing each other in the wilderness.


    After hearing Scott''s words, the faces of the children standing at the end changed, they held their weapons and followed the team.


    Scott and Mia led the way, walking down the stairs.


    There are cracks with thick fingers on the corridor covered with vegetation, and there are some things scattered on the ground. Although it is covered with heavy dust and vegetation, Du Di''an still recognizes it at a glance. It is a woman''s shoes and wallet, which seems to be silently telling the story of the past. riots that occurred.


    With a bang, in vain, the stairs that a middle-aged man from a consortium of scavengers stepped on collapsed. He also fell down and fell to the ground. Fortunately, it was only the first floor, and he was blessed with a physique. There was no injury, but the sudden movement shocked everyone else.


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    Scott looked back and frowned, "Be careful." After speaking, he took the lead to the second floor, where the light was extremely dim, the corridor was dark, and the ventilation windows were already covered with vegetation, so sunlight could not penetrate Come in, it''s damp and dark inside.


    Scott took out his scythe and lit a torch. The dim light shone around him. He held the torch and walked in front to the first room in front of the corridor. Gently pushing the door open, a cold wind suddenly blew out of the room, almost extinguishing the torch.


    Scott lowered the torch a little, held a sword in the other hand, and slowly entered the room, only to see a mess on the ground inside, the chair overturned, the curtain was torn in half, the window was broken, and it was dense outside. of vegetation.


    Click!


    In vain, a slight voice came from the depths of the room.


    Scott''s face changed, and he immediately raised the torch to take a look. In the bathroom inside the room, the curtain of the bathroom collapsed to the ground, and two pale and dry thighs stretched out from the bathroom, following his torch. Shining, he immediately saw that the owner of this thigh was actually a woman whose face was completely rotten, and the slight voice came from her chest.


    There, a huge black mouse was lying on the ground, gnawing at the woman''s chest.


    Du Di''an saw this scene from the space between Scott''s arms, his pupils shrank suddenly, this mouse was as big as a hound, with thick dark hair all over his body, exuding a strong rancid smell, and a tail as thick as an adult''s finger. He ate people''s corpses with relish!


    "It''s a monster!" Scott reacted first, growling lowly, and slashing with his sword!


    At this time, the huge mouse that ate the woman also noticed the firelight behind it. It turned its head and glanced at it. Its eyes were blood red and full of violence. The sharp mouth was stained with sticky blood, and a few extremely long whiskers fluttered slightly. Noticing that there were more people on Scott''s side, he paused for a while, then turned around and ran into the bathroom, stepping on the bathtub and jumping out of the window.


    Scott and Mia''s attacks were all in vain, and they looked at each other with lingering fears.


    At this time, Macon and others at the back also noticed the movement, and when they heard Scott''s words, they all gathered around.


    Scott said in a low voice, "Escape." After that, he put down the torch and looked at the dead woman. The woman seemed to be dead and stared at him, her pupils were actually pale green.


    "It stinks." Macon said, covering his nose.


    Du Dian has forgotten to breathe, and the shock in his heart is no trivial matter. Could it be that under the three hundred years of nuclear radiation, the mice living here have been passed down from generation to generation, and the genes have mutated so terribly?


    His eyes fell on this woman, who was completely naked, covered by a collapsed bathroom curtain, the stiff flesh on his chest had been gnawed deeply by the mouse, and half of his heart had been bitten off. His rib, however, his eyes fell on the other''s eyebrows, where there was a blood hole as thick as a finger, which seemed to be... shot by a bullet?


    Du Dian was stunned for a moment, and then rejected the possibility of bullets. Instead, it was more like the damage caused by bows and arrows. After all, the power of bullets can obviously tear and destroy the flesh and blood around the bullet holes.


    But what he couldn''t understand was that if this woman died with a bow and arrow, it would be at the hands of a human being. Who would shoot her with a bow and arrow? In vain, he thought of a point that he had overlooked, and his whole body suddenly stood up!


    This woman is obviously taking a bath!


    However, the water supply system in this house should have been broken long ago!


    No matter whether the other party is a scavenger or a hunter, he will never endure not taking a bath for ten days. The most important thing is that people in this world seldom take a bath like this!


    "Difficult, could it be that she was a human three hundred years ago? Died in the bath? But if so... her body should have rotted long ago!" Du Di''an was a little stunned, when Mia suddenly squatted down, as if Not wanting this woman to die in the wilderness with her body exposed, she slightly lifted the curtain over her body to cover her body. However, when he mentioned it, Du Di''an accidentally saw that the woman''s arm... was actually a sharp claw!


    The nails turned into sharp and long thorns, and the five thorns were slightly curved. It was hard to imagine how much damage it would cause when grasped by such a hand!


    "Mutant person?" Du Dian was speechless, and his mind became a little confused.

 Chapter 45: The Walking Dead

    "The undead walking corpse!" Scott murmured, seeing Mia carefully covering it, with a hint of disappointment on his face, sighed: "Clean up the room, this thing must be burned, otherwise it will breed other monsters. "


    Mia''s mouth moved slightly, stood up silently, glanced at the woman''s rotten face, and finally turned her head to clean up the other available supplies in the room.


    Du Dian was shocked when he heard Scott''s words, and couldn''t help asking: "What is an undead walking corpse?"


    Scott looked back at Mia''s back, saw her silently picking up supplies on the ground and the table, sighed, and said to Du Di''an: "The undead walking corpse is one of the undead monsters, and its power is extremely terrifying. They have night vision, and even if they don''t eat or drink, they won''t die! They like the smell of blood, so any creatures that come close to them will be eaten by them, and they will draw life force from the flesh they eat to improve Your own power, simply put, the more people or animals you eat, the more terrifying these undead walking corpses will be!"


    Du Dian couldn''t help but said, "Then how did they come from?"


    Scott sighed: "They were all infected by the power of the devil. These undead corpses were all human before they died, but they couldn''t stand the temptation of the power of the devil, and finally abandoned their souls. Although they gained eternal life, they lost it since then. Personality and all the memories of the past have become the devil''s minions."


    "Infected?" Du Di''an naturally wouldn''t believe in any devil, and continued: "Is it infected by radiation?"


    Scott didn''t expect that he would get to the bottom of it, glanced at him, shook his head and said: "Of course not, radiation will only damage the body and cause some distorted changes, but it will never make people into such monsters. They are controlled by the devil''s power. Infected, this power is like a plague disease, which can be contagious to each other, such as the bone-eating rat that escaped earlier, is a low-level monster, once it is bitten by it, it will also be infected."


    Du Dian couldn''t help stunned.


    mutual infection? Isn''t this a virus? !


    But how did this virus come about?


    Could it be that three hundred years ago, while he was sleeping, something else happened in the world?


    Scott sighed lightly and said: "These bone-eating rats like to hide in dark corners, and are often ignored by the hunters. With our strength, although we can kill this thing, if we are accidentally attacked by it, If you scratch your body, you will be infected and become an undead corpse!"


    Having said that, he glanced at Mia who was picking up the supplies, and sighed: "Mia''s former husband was bitten on the arm by a steel rat monster."


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    bang!


    A metal object in Mia''s hand suddenly fell to the ground.


    Scott was stunned for a moment, sighed, and said nothing more, and said to Du Dian and others: "Everyone should go to clean each room, remember to be careful, these monsters can smell the blood in our body, just this one just now. Although they ran away, they must still be lingering nearby. Be careful that they hide in the dark and attack you. It is best for newcomers to work in groups of four, take care of each other, and call for help if anything happens."


    His instructions were mainly for the newcomers such as Du Dian. Although those consortium scavengers were not as good as their regular scavengers, they came to scavenge more often. What they should know has long been known, and he does not need to explain more.


    Hearing Scott''s order, the people behind dispersed. However, Mei, Zha, Sha and several other children who were standing in front of them saw the terrifying appearance of the undead walking corpse on the ground and the huge size of the bone-eating rat before. scene, have they ever seen it? For a time, the knowledge learned in the usual training was suddenly forgotten, and at this moment I just wanted to hold a group and be close to Scott.


    Scott looked at the pale and trembling faces of these children, frowned slightly, and said, "Scavenging is not such an easy job, didn''t your instructor tell you? Continue to follow my words, you will pick up everything when you come out this time. If you don¡¯t get it, it¡¯s a waste of time. You probably don¡¯t know it yet, if you rank in the back after picking up waste several times in a row, you will be expelled by the consortium!¡±


    Eviction? Mei, Zha, Sha and the others turned pale, gritted their teeth, resisted the fear in their hearts, clenched their weapons and turned to leave.


    Just as Du Dian was about to turn around and leave, Scott shouted: "You don''t have to follow them, just follow me. This time I will give you one third of the things I picked up. You just need to learn how to pick up waste. It''s alright, no one will take you next time."


    Du Di''an frowned and said, "I want to go see it alone. If something happens, I will call for help."


    Scott was stunned, glanced at him, and said, "Okay, then be careful yourself."


    Du Dian nodded slightly and said to the three of Macon: "Let''s go."


    Macon secretly gave him a thumbs up. After a few people left the room, Du Dian saw that someone in the other rooms on the second floor had entered and searched, and immediately said, "Let''s go to the third floor."


    Mei, Zha, and Sha have no objection. During the three-year training process, they have almost formed the habit of letting Du Di''an make the final decision.


    The third floor is also the top floor. The vegetation is sparse. The gray and cloudy sunlight shines in through the gaps between the broken windows and falls on the ground. There is a thick layer of dust on the floor. There are bloodstains that have long dried up on the walls. , there are several corpses lying on the ground, some bodies were cut in half, some heads were smashed by some kind of heavy object, there are traces of blades on the wall, obviously, hunters once came here, and a battle took place .


    Du Di''an noticed that the fingers of these corpses were sharp claws, and they seemed to be undead corpses infected by viruses. Although he didn''t know where the virus came from, there is no doubt that a virus that can have such amazing effects , is definitely something that can only be made by the world''s top biological research institutes, or even, probably made by those guys


    Mei, Zha, and Sha saw the corpses on the ground, swallowed their saliva, and trembled a little. Although they had killed poisonous snakes, lizards and other animals to feed their stomachs during training, and had seen blood, they were all shed by animals. It has long been numb, but there are people lying in front of them, the same life as them!


    This sense of fear made the three of them feel nauseated and their limbs were cold, as if these dead corpses would suddenly get up and rush towards them for their lives.


    Du Di''an was also a little scared in his heart, but he tried his best to remain calm and came to the first room with the sunshine. The door of this room is open, the anti-theft chains are broken, it is obvious that they have been violently intruded. There are battle marks left in the room not long ago, there is a pool of blood on the ground, and two walking corpses are lying down. It is a young couple. Both men and women have extremely pale skin, gray to be precise, lime-gray without blood, light veins appear on the body, sharp fingers, hands, feet and body are dry and thin, as if all the fat in the body has been drained, only Muscle tissue remains.


    When the strong corpse odor came, Du Dian put on the mask specially designed for scavengers, and immediately felt that the odor was much lighter. His voice was a little low through the mask, and said: "Don''t touch the corpse, look for other things around first."


    As he said that, his eyes swept across the room, and at a glance, he saw a laptop covered with heavy dust.


    Du Di''an stepped forward to scatter the dust, pressed the keyboard, and pressed it gently. Obviously, the spring inside was rotten and damaged. He closed the notebook and prepared to take it back first, and then disassemble it to see what parts were available.

 Chapter 46: Assault

    At this time, Mei, Zha, and Sha also separately searched for supplies in the room, deliberately avoiding the two corpses on the ground. Although they knew that the two corpses were dead, they were afraid because of this.


    After searching around, the three of Macon found some metal objects. Although they do not know the function of these objects, in their values, any metal objects must be valuable.


    When Du Di''an saw the mobile phones, TV remote controls, electric lights and other items they found, he couldn''t help but wonder. There should be a lot of these things found by the scavengers, and the various consortiums didn''t research anything from it?


    However, when he saw the twisted metal behind the phone, he immediately understood that the three hundred years in this radiation zone were completely different from the three hundred years in the normal ecological environment. Although these items are still there, they have long been distorted under the accumulation of nuclear radiation, and the parts are completely deformed. If the original purpose is not known, it is impossible to infer useful things based on these distorted parts alone.


    The only things that can resist nuclear radiation are high-density metals such as lead and gold, which is why the gold jewelry on the counter below has not changed much.


    "Go to the next room." Du Di''an swept around, and after seeing nothing of value, he turned and left the house. This is the advantage of going to the newly swept-up area to pick up waste. Not only are the things picked up high in value, but also able to There is room for choice. Like the rooms they have seen today, other scavengers will definitely come to sweep them in the future, but they can only pick some fabrics or clothes, or remove the metal from large objects such as beds and refrigerators. .


    The three of Macon didn''t want to stay in the room with the corpse for a long time, and immediately withdrew.


    Several walking corpses lay quietly in the corridor, extraordinarily silent.


    Looking at these walking corpses, Du Dian always felt that they would wake up suddenly, and his heart was pounding. He suppressed his thoughts and pushed open the door of the second room. Not surprisingly, there were a few people in this room. The walking corpses were lying there, looking at their short-sleeved clothes, they were obviously people from three hundred years ago, which made Du Di''an have to make sure of one thing. When the global nuclear bomb broke out three hundred years ago, it also quietly broke out. A terrible virus disaster!


    This unknown virus turned all the infected people into terrifying undead corpses. Even if they stayed in the nuclear radiation zone for 300 years, they did not die. It shows how terrifying and tenacious the virus in their bodies is!


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    Du Dian bypassed the three walking corpses on the ground and searched for things in this room. He was mainly looking for electrical appliances such as computers and mobile phones. After all, in such a residential house, the only useful things are these things.


    There is a desktop computer in this room. Du Di''an naturally won''t carry the entire desktop computer back. He disassembled the computer, and the electric box and some wires inside were full of dust. Unexpectedly, when the palm of the hand touched the electric box, it was like touching a thin layer of paper, and it was easily poked into the electric box.


    This electric box has completely deteriorated under the long-term nuclear radiation.


    Du Dian sighed and looked at the other wires. The plastic on the outside of these wires was twisted and bloated. Some of the tiny resistors on the main board inside were shriveled down, and some were swollen into weird shapes, losing their true colors under nuclear radiation.


    Du Dian shook his head slightly and gave up the machine. After all, today is only the first day of scavenging, and there are still nine days left. There are many things that can be picked up, but what he can carry is very limited.


    "If there is a truck, you can put as many as you want." Du Di''an suddenly had such an idea in his mind, and suddenly he was clever, but he was soon discouraged. The scrapped cars outside were obviously similar to this computer, and many parts were It has been deteriorated or deformed and cannot be repaired. If you want to make a mechanical transportation tool, you have to rely on super chips.


    And the premise of all this is to have electricity!


    Du Dian turned around and continued to search for other things. He only saw one way of making generators, that is, wind power generators. To make wind power generators, you first need an open site. Philippine funds, so you still have to have money first.


    When Du Di''an and others searched for the third room, others also went up to the third floor one after another and searched everywhere.


    Half an hour later, the building was completely raided, and the goods that everyone found were piled up in the lobby on the first floor. Everyone registered with Scott to prevent confusion and prevent others from stealing.


    Obviously, in the long history of scavenging, the scavengers have long understood that the best interests can be obtained by eliminating civil strife.


    "Now, let''s go and search nearby." Scott said to everyone after registering.


    The twenty consortium scavengers couldn''t wait, and immediately left the shop in groups of four or five to search for supplies in the nearby ruins.


    Scott glanced at Du Dian and said, "Mia and I are going to search for supplies, do you want to go together?"


    Du Dian shook his head and said, "No, let me go with my friend."


    "That''s okay, call for help when you are in danger. It''s very quiet here, you can basically hear it, as long as you stay too far away." Scott didn''t force it, and ordered.


    Du Dian nodded, turned to say hello to Macon, Zach and Sham, and searched the nearby dilapidated buildings along the street.


    Because he knew these shops, Du Di''an basically didn''t need to go in, and he could know what could be found in some ruins. He did not search each building one by one like others, but walked down the street and quickly found a small and medium-sized house. supermarket.


    This supermarket is covered with vegetation, but it can still be identified from the style as a supermarket, but I don¡¯t know what disaster it has suffered. The supermarket collapsed from the middle, and there were several dead bodies lying on the ground at the door, all of which were left not long ago. s damage.


    "So many walking corpses" The three of Macon saw the corpses on the ground, and their faces were a little ugly. They came to this No. 8 area, and the corpses of walking corpses were everywhere. They couldn''t imagine that when the hunters first came here, What kind of scene are you facing?


    Du Dian was also a little frightened in his heart, but he still kept his composure, and went in through the supermarket door that seemed to have been kicked open by the hunters who came here before. The sound came, and there seemed to be seven or eight red spots in the darkness!


    "Mutant monster!" Du Dian''s pupils shrank, and he hurried back.


    At the same time as he retreated, with a whistle, a gray shadow flashed from the door and jumped towards Du Di''an.

 Chapter 47: The First Battle

    Du Di''an hurriedly fell to the ground and rolled sideways, avoiding the pounce of the gray shadow, and looking up at the same time, this was a giant rat with dark hair, similar to the "bone-eating rat" that escaped earlier, but with a slightly smaller size. He was a little thinner, and at this moment, he showed his sharp teeth like a hound, and his blood-red eyes stared at him.


    "Monster!" Mei, Zha, and Sha screamed in shock, their faces turning pale, and their legs were a little soft.


    Whoosh!


    The bone-eating rat missed a single hit, jumped up again after landing, and rushed towards the nearest Du Dian.


    Du Di''an''s hair stood on end, this bone-eating rat was too fast to dodge again, and for the first time facing such a battle, his brain was a little sluggish, and he instinctively raised his arms to resist.


    With a bang, he felt that his upper body was slammed by a heavy object, his body lost his balance and fell backwards, sitting on the ground with his butt on the ground, so scared that he instinctively closed his eyes, but the last remaining rationality in his heart reminded him to do that. Can only wait to die, he opened his eyes diligently, only to see this bone-eating rat pounced on him, with a sharp rat''s mouth that grows very large, and small sharp teeth tightly biting his arm!


    Horrified, scared, longing for time to stop!


    help me! help me!


    Many chaotic thoughts suddenly poured into my mind, and when life encountered a desperate situation, instinct immediately swallowed up reason completely. However, this was only a momentary thought. The long-standing calm state of mind made Du Dian quickly regain his sense of reason in the panic. When he saw the upper and lower jaws of this bone-eating rat kept squirming and chewing his arms, A sharp pain came from his arm, and a huge anger surged in his heart in vain.


    "Uh ah..." Du Dian roared and raised his arm, slammed on the street, turned over and climbed up at the same time, released the short sword with the other hand, and grabbed the bone-eating rat who was biting his right arm tightly. Legs, pull hard, and at the same time keep hitting the right arm on the ground, making its head violently collide with the ground!


    Bang! Bang! Bang!


    Continuously violently smashing and pulling, the bone-eating rat did not hold on, and soon let go of its mouth, Du Di''an roared and shook its body, slammed hard on the ground, and with a bang, the bone-eating rat slammed into the ground. On the hard ground, the hair and flesh on his body offset a lot of the impact.


    "Death to me! Die! Die!"


    Du Dian roared and smashed frantically, and slammed it on the ground again and again. The bone-eating rat''s hard head collided with the ground, and the bones were suddenly cracked. Soon blood spilled from the corner of the bone-eating rat''s mouth. The blood splattered near the corners of its mouth like a parabola.


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    With a bang, and I don''t know how many times he smashed it, Du Dian only felt that the anger in his heart gradually subsided, and the fatigue spread all over his arms. He looked at the bone-eating rat who had lost his struggle in his hand, gritted his teeth, and picked up the The dagger stabbed its stomach fiercely.


    The dagger was extremely sharp, stabbed seven or eight times in a row, and blood was on the dagger. Du Di''an saw that it had completely lost movement, and then stopped the attack, only to feel that his heart was still beating wildly, recalling the previous shocking scene, He still has lingering fears. This is the first time he has faced fear and death so directly. Although he has seen the most terrifying end of the world, it is only the tip of the iceberg that he has seen on TV. It is like watching a disaster movie and experiencing it with himself. Feelings are two completely different things.


    Without looking in the mirror, Du Dian can feel that his face is extremely ugly at the moment, and his appearance is extremely embarrassed. He panted slightly and looked at his right arm, which has several deep dents on it. Fortunately, this black soft armor The material is extremely hard, and there is a layer of lead metal inside, which has not been bitten by it. Otherwise, the speed of infection through saliva is much faster than other methods, and he will most likely be like the one Scott said. Like Ya''s husband, becoming an undead walking corpse...


    "Dean!" Macon yelled in vain.


    Du Dian was stunned and looked up at him.


    But I saw Macon rushing over suddenly, raising his dagger and slashing head-on.


    Du Di''an woke up suddenly, thinking of the seven or eight red spots seen in the supermarket earlier, and hurriedly rolled on the spot.


    With a puff, Macon''s dagger stabbed at Du Dian''s back at the moment he escaped, blood splashed out, and the dagger stabbed the chest of a bone-eating rat that jumped over. In the soft part, the dagger stabbed directly into it.


    Du Dian hurriedly looked back, and suddenly saw that in addition to the bone-eating rat that Macon stabbed to death, three bone-eating rats rushed out of the broken glass door of the supermarket one after another, with blood-red eyes staring at them, like agile The cheetah, jumping from side to side quickly, pounced on Macon and Du Dian.


    Du Dian''s face was ugly, he grabbed the dagger, and stepped back again and again, the dagger in his hand kept waving gently, threatening the approach of these things. However, pure intimidation did not frighten these bone-eating rats, and one of them jumped in front of Du Di''an and jumped over.


    Du Dian hurriedly slashed away with his sword, the blade slashed on the bone-eating rat''s hair, but was removed by the greasy and tough hair, and the blade slipped and stuck to the bone-eating rat''s body, just like slapping the blade with the blade , did no harm at all, the next moment, the bone-eating rat fell on Du Di''an''s chest, and the two sharp rat claws in front were waving their teeth and claws, grabbing Du Di''an''s face.


    Just like the hunting instinct of a beast, it knows to attack the opponent''s key points.


    Du Di''an hurriedly grabbed its hair. Once it scratched the skin, the bacteria accumulated in the nails that crawled through all kinds of messy places would immediately infect him. However, the gloves of the black soft armor have little friction, and the hair of this bone-eating mouse is extremely smooth.


    Once again, life is facing a desperate situation.


    Du Di''an roared, suddenly turned over on both feet, twisted his body in a very soft posture, and stood up like this without using his hands. At the same time, his arms grabbed the last trace of hair, and pushed hard to the side, pushing the bite. The bone rat flew out.


    The bone-eating rat fell to the ground and rolled in a circle, then got up again, and grinned at Du Dian again, aggressively.


    Du Dian''s heart tightened, his muscles tightened, and his mental power was highly concentrated at this moment. At the moment when the bone-eating rat rushed, he kicked it out.


    With a bang, the bone-eating rat jumped up, and at this moment, Du Dian''s foot seemed to expect its attack, and actually kicked exactly where it jumped, containing the power of anger bursting out of despair. , This kick was extremely heavy, and the bone-eating rat made a sharp scream, and rolled out backwards.


    Du Di''an didn''t stop, but rushed out on his own initiative!


    When the bone-devouring rat fell, Du Dian had already caught up, and before it got up, he clenched the short sword in both hands and stabbed it down hard.


    With a loud bang, the dagger stabbed into its abdomen and penetrated into the abdomen.


    The bone-devouring rat suffered a sudden pain, struggled violently, and at the same time made a harsh scream, Du Dian gritted his teeth, used all his strength in both hands, held down the dagger firmly, and nailed it to the ground, no matter what it did. Struggling and screaming, did not let go.


    At this moment, he didn''t even feel it himself, his heart was full of ruthlessness and cruelty!

 Chapter 48: Living Corpse

    "Ah!" A vain scream of panic came.


    Du Di''an was startled and hurriedly looked back, but saw that Macon was flanked by two bone-eating rats and fell to the ground. Zach and Sham didn''t watch the play, they stepped forward and punched and kicked the two bone-eating mice, daring not to attack with a dagger, for fear of accidentally hurting Macon below.


    Du Di''an''s face changed, he hurriedly pulled out his dagger, and rushed over.


    "Go away!!" Du Di''an roared, the metal boots kicked the head of one of the bone-eating rats, and with a bang, the bone-eating rat''s body suddenly fell backwards. Seeing the opportunity, Zach hurried forward, pressed the bone-eating rat on his body, raised his fist and beat its head fiercely.


    Sham tugged at the tail of the other bone-eating rat, preventing it from crawling on Macon''s face.


    Du Dian has mastered the coping experience. He lowered his waist and pulled up the hind legs of this bone-eating rat. He struggled to lift it up. He lifted its body directly, lifted it vigorously, and smashed it violently on the ground. Its pointed little head Knocked on the ground, the strength of the struggle suddenly weakened.


    Du Di''an roared and smashed continuously, using a homeopathic force, repeatedly smashed, preventing the bone-eating rat from finding a leverage point to break free from his palm.


    After more than ten consecutive smashes, the bone-eating rat gradually stopped moving, its body twitched reflexively, and blood seeped out from its hair, staining the ground red.


    At this time, Macon, who got up from the ground, had cooperated with Zach and stabbed another bone-eating rat to death.


    Du Di''an looked at the bone-eating rat who was motionless in his hand, grabbed the short sword and made up a few swords before he was relieved, and sat on the ground, only to feel his arm sore as if it was broken, his whole body was exhausted, and he was constantly tired. Breathing heavily, the air filtered by the mask exhaled extremely slowly, making him feel sultry and dizzy like an oxygen deficiency.


    Macon also sat next to him, leaning against his back, gasping for breath.


    Zach and Sham were in better condition and still had a lot of stamina, but looking at the corpses of several bone-eating rats on the ground, they were still a little frightened and their faces were pale.


    After resting for a while, Macon slapped the hair caught between the gaps of the gloves and panted, "It''s so damn dangerous, it almost slashed my throat, these damn things."


    Du Di''an''s breathing has gradually become smooth, he looked back at him, and said, "Thanks to you this time."


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    Macon said angrily, "What?"


    Du Di''an smiled and said nothing more.


    Zach said with lingering fears: "There are so many bone-eating rats here, didn''t those hunters see it, is this still called "cleaning"? "


    Sham said fortunately: "Fortunately, the soft armor on our body has good toughness and has not been torn apart, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable."


    Du Dian looked at the rat corpse in front of his feet, recalling his previous battle, his fingers couldn''t help clenching his fists, it was too bad, his performance was too bad, if it wasn''t for Macon''s call in time, he would have been taken from behind by this bone-eating rat. Attacked.


    "You have done an excellent job. After all, this is the first time you have encountered such a battle. Even if an adult sees an ordinary vicious dog rushing towards him, he will be frightened and panicked." A voice comforted him. But soon, Du Di''an killed the weak voice. He bit his lip tightly, and the pain invaded his mind. He wanted to let his weakness remember that life is only once!


    In the face of death, excellence and failure are meaningless. The only thing that can save you is the power to survive!


    He suddenly understood why scavengers would only choose from residential areas and slums, but not from the colleges in the business district. Because the death rate of this job is too high! Although, they encountered danger this time, mainly because they came to the eighth area that had just been "cleaned". If they went to the ninth area, which had been scavenged ten times, the chance of encountering these monsters would be very low.


    However, the low probability of danger also means that the harvest of scavenging is low!


    This is a profession of equal risk and value!


    This is fair enough.


    Having had previous combat experience, Du Di''an still has some fear of death. This time he encountered a bone-eating rat. Will he encounter a more terrifying monster next time? Shouldn''t it be better to follow the main force and go back after the mission is over?


    He looked at the broken glass door of the supermarket, and flinched in his heart, but soon, he thought of his right arm and the scar carved on it. Ken and the three said: "Go in, the movement was so big just now, a few of them should have come out, but there may be some hiding in the dark, everyone be careful."


    Mei, Zha, and Sha did not expect that Du Dian would dare to enter the ruins. They were a little surprised. When they saw his determined gaze from the side cheeks, the three hesitated slightly, then stood up and clenched their short swords, ready at any time. Resist the attack.


    at this time--


    "Ah, ah!" A shrill scream came from a nearby street, and it was particularly loud in this rotten ruin.


    The four of Du Di''an were stunned for a moment, and suddenly thought of the bone-eating rat monster they had just encountered, and when they heard this shrill cry, there was no doubt that the other party had also encountered something. Help in the past.


    Du Dian noticed the hesitation in his heart, and suddenly stunned, his mind quickly thought about it, and said: "Go over and take a look, be careful, if there is a situation, withdraw immediately!"


    The three of Macon were hesitant, and when they heard his words, they nodded immediately, as if a stone had fallen in their hearts.


    Several people ran in the direction of the screams, when they saw the scavengers rushing out from other buildings and ran to the screaming place.


    Soon, the screams were getting closer and closer. It was a street corner. Du Dian immediately slowed down and made a slight gesture. The three behind Mei, Zha, and Sha immediately understood, they all slowed down, and slowly approached behind Du Di''an.


    Going around the corner, Du Dian looked around, his pupils shrank suddenly, his face full of horror.


    I saw in the center of this street covered with green vegetation, in front of a dilapidated shop door, two figures hugged and twisted on the ground, a man and a woman respectively. However, the figure above, with a tattered shirt, showing off gray-white skinny skin, disheveled hair, and sharp claws on his fingers, was actually a walking corpse! !


    Alive, walking dead! ! !


    At this moment, this woman''s walking corpse is lying on the body of the struggling young man, gnawing at the flesh and blood of his chest. With Du Di''an''s vision, he can see it very clearly, and he can even see the other side''s bite when he is biting. The blood vessel-like tissue, the blood gushing out from the young man''s chest, dyed the neck and neck of his mouth red.


    Behind the young man''s feet, there was a figure in black standard soft armour, a woman whose body was motionless and seemed to be dead.


    And more than ten meters away from the young man, there is another young man standing. At this moment, he is stepping back and backwards, his hands are tightly covering his mouth, and he does not seem to dare to let his fear cry out.

 Chapter 49: Deadly

    "A, Aaron, save me." At this moment, the young man who was bitten was lying on the ground, his neck raised his head with difficulty, and he raised his hand to grab the young man behind who was scared and kept retreating. His handsome face was full of expressions. Fear and pain, and longing for life!


    The young man named Aaron covered his mouth and looked at his best friend in dismay. Tears streamed down his face. He trembled slightly, turned his teeth sharply, and strode towards the exit of the street.


    Du Di''an immediately saw that the walking corpse that was biting on the young man seemed to be startled by his footsteps, raised his head in vain, his disheveled face was full of hideousness, and suddenly chased towards Aaron. Its running posture is extremely twisted, its arms are fluttering, its body is swaying, like a drunk person, it will fall down at any time, but its speed is extremely fast. In the wobbly pace, it seems to find a strange forward inertia. Quickly catch up to Aaron.


    When Aaron heard the movement behind him, he looked back in horror, and suddenly saw the corpse woman''s sharp claws slashing down, like several sharp daggers. He was so frightened that he hurriedly raised his dagger to block. Although he blocked the walking dead woman''s claws, he was hit by the heavy force and fell to the ground.


    Seeing this scene, Du Di was extremely shocked, and at the same time, he was a little scared. If he encountered such a walking corpse monster alone, with his current physique, he would definitely die. At this moment, he felt a bit of happiness in his heart. Fortunately, he did not choose this street, otherwise he and Macon would be the ones who would end up in front of him at this moment.


    Seeing that this young man was gradually unable to withstand it, Du Di''an suddenly had the idea of retiring. The idea of preparing to save people a moment ago has already been forgotten at this moment. Although these consortium scavengers are not formally graduated, they have participated in many scavengers and have received many blessings. There are more than them, and the strength is several times stronger than them. At this moment, he is also unable to deal with the walking corpse. If he goes out, he will die.


    Du Di''an waved his hand back and signaled to leave gently.


    Macon and the others stood behind. Although they didn''t see the scene inside, they heard the shrill screams and chewing sounds. After all, the ruins were too quiet, and the voice was very clear. At this moment, when they saw Du Dian''s gesture, his face suddenly changed. After a change, recalling the bone-eating rat he encountered earlier, he hurriedly backed away slowly.


    At this time, from the other side of the street, there were four consortium scavengers who heard the sound and ran in stride. When they saw the Du Di''an people on the opposite side of the street, they were stunned. At this moment, they suddenly heard from the corner With a scream, the face of a handsome young man led by the four changed, and he rushed out in a hurry, and suddenly saw a terrifying scene. The arm of the young man named Aaron was bitten by the walking corpse woman, and the firm black soft armor and Without resisting the latter''s fangs, the blood oozing from the bitten part slid down the black armor.


    "Walking Corpse!" The handsome young man''s pupils shrank, a little horrified, but he didn''t want to back down. He shouted: "Hold on!" After speaking, he said to the three companions by his side: "Let''s go up together, restrain it first, Wait for the others and Scott to come."


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    The three companions were also full of horror, but they did not hesitate to hear the words. They held the daggers one after another, headed by the handsome young man, and rushed towards the walking corpse woman.


    The walking corpse woman heard the voice and looked up at them, her blood-stained lime-grey face showed a hideous look, roared, and stood up in the weird and twisted posture before, waving her arms irregularly, the handsome young man four. People come.


    The handsome young man let out a loud roar, jumped up and kicked out with the strength of running, and with a bang, he kicked the walking corpse woman''s chest ruthlessly, kicking her backwards and flying backwards, falling to the ground.


    When Du Dian saw the four of them appear, he didn''t rush to leave, and went back to the corner to continue to observe. When he saw the handsome young man kicking over the walking corpse woman, he couldn''t help feeling overjoyed, but he was not in a hurry to go out to help. The agile speed of the walking corpse woman made him shudder.


    When the three of Macon saw someone coming to fight, they also leaned behind Du Dian, looked around, and were shocked.


    When the handsome young man kicked over the walking corpse woman, the other three immediately stepped forward to drag Aaron on the ground, pulled him back, and left the battlefield.


    At this time, the walking corpse woman''s body quickly climbed up, roared hoarsely, and rushed towards the handsome young man with fangs and claws.


    The handsome young man''s face was horrified, he hurriedly slashed his sword, and with a puff, the dagger slashed on one arm of the walking corpse woman, and immediately cut into the lime-grey skin, but there was no blood flowing out of the skin, and it seemed that the inside could be seen from the cut surface. It was black and red flesh and blood, as if the blood had solidified, and this made its body extremely hard. The dagger was cut in half, and it seemed to be stuck on the bones inside.


    The handsome young man''s pupils shrank, holding the hilt of the sword and pulling hard, but did not pull it out for a while. At this time, the walking corpse woman took advantage of this brief moment to pounce on his body, raised her other arm, clasped her claws to his throat, and with a thud, suddenly pierced the artery on the side of the neck and blood. It spewed out, splashing on the walking dead woman''s arm.


    "Wig!" The three who dragged Aaron behind him ran over to help when they saw this scene and lost their voices.


    The handsome young man covered his pierced neck and widened his eyes, as if he never expected his young life to end here. .


    The walking corpse woman roared and grabbed his body, biting on his other neck and eating his body.


    "Monster!!" One of the short and fat companions who rushed over roared angrily, grabbed the dagger, and charged towards the walking corpse woman.


    The walking corpse woman pushed aside the handsome young man''s body, swaying and charging towards the squat young man.


    "Pease, no, don''t go!!" The two companions at the back hurriedly shouted.


    But the chubby young man had already had red eyes and rushed up. The dagger suddenly stabbed out, and with a puff, it penetrated the chest of the walking corpse woman who had no intention of avoiding it. Killing, but there is no joy in my heart, but more sadness.


    At this moment, the walking corpse woman''s claws slammed, and with a bang, one of the index fingers mutated into a sharp claw, which penetrated through the cheek of the chunky middle-aged man, and the tip of the claw came from the other cheek. He stabbed it out, piercing his entire mouth, and felt intense pain, which made the chubby young man want to call, but he couldn''t cry out in horror. The next moment, he saw that ferocious and terrifying cheek, quickly approaching him, and then bit on the face superior!


    "Peace!!" One of the companions behind cried out in grief, while the other pulled him and hurriedly backed away, hoping to escape as far as possible while the chunky young man was being eaten.


    Du Di''an''s face also changed color. I didn''t expect that the four consortium scavengers could not fight against this walking corpse woman. The most terrifying thing was that the piercing in the chest did not affect the other party at all. Could it be that the other party is really an undead monster?


    Suddenly, he thought of the walking corpse woman he had seen dead in the bathroom earlier, as well as other walking corpses on the road. On the way, he did not just look for supplies, but paid more attention to these On the corpse of the walking corpse, he suddenly thought of one thing that these corpses have in common, that is, there are scars on the head!


    Either sword wounds, or arrow wounds.


    Could it be that the head is their fatal point?

 Chapter 50: Bloodstained

    When Du Di''an was thinking, there were a lot of footsteps behind him. He looked back, but Scott and Mia came with a large number of scavengers, and Scott and Mia, who were running at the front, shook the others away. A large distance, the speed is extremely amazing, like a human-shaped cheetah, the distance of hundreds of meters passed in the blink of an eye, and came to the four of Du Di''an.


    "What''s the matter?" Scott asked hastily.


    When Du Dian saw them appear, his tense heart was relieved, and he said, "It''s a walking corpse!" He said, pointing to the street at the corner.


    Scott and Mia''s expressions changed, and when they turned their heads, they happened to see the two scavengers dragging Aaron, who had passed out, to exit from the street. They also saw Scott, and their sorrowful faces suddenly showed infinite surprise, and hurriedly said: "Help, it''s a walking corpse, save Pease!"


    Scott and Mia hurried over and immediately saw the picture of the walking corpse woman eating the short and fat young man. Their expressions changed. Scott immediately drew his dagger and said: "Prepare to fight, join forces to fight. It kills, otherwise it will keep chasing the smell we leave behind!"


    At this time, Mia saw Aaron who was in a coma, her pretty face turned pale, and she said in a trembling voice, "He, what''s his injury?"


    One of them continued: "I was bitten by that walking corpse. When we rushed over, we saw him resisting."


    Hearing this, Scott, who was preparing to fight, changed his face and gritted his teeth: "Kill him immediately before he is infected, otherwise, we will face two undead corpses!"


    "This, this" The two of them had ugly expressions when they heard this. They were not rookies who were picking up waste for the first time. They had long known that if they were bitten by monsters outside the giant wall, they would be infected. It''s just that, knowing is knowing, but it is really difficult to kill a living person who used to scavenge waste together with one''s own hands.


    "Can''t it be rescued?" One of the tall young men looked at Scott, "Maybe he can hold on."


    "Stupid!" Scott interrupted him with a violent drink, his face full of anger, and said, "If you want to die, take him away, or kill him immediately!"


    At this time, another young man trembled: "The walking corpse is here."


    Scott froze, quickly focused his attention, and stared at the walking corpse woman, only to see that she abandoned the prey in her hand, her green eyes fell on them, and she swayed, extremely fast. The ground speed hits fast.


    "So fast!" Scott was startled, but did not flinch, he gritted his teeth to face it.


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    With a bang, Scott kicked out first and kicked the walking corpse woman''s abdomen. The latter didn''t mean to dodge, and was kicked to the ground immediately. Scott seized the opportunity and quickly approached, seeing that it was going He got up from the ground and immediately added another kick, kicking it in the face.


    The toe of the steel boot hit its chin, kicking it over again.


    "Death to me!" Scott growled, raised his short sword and stabbed the walking dead woman in the face, with a puff, the short sword pierced through the center of its face, and the walking dead woman made a sound in the throat With a dry roar, his whole body twitched violently, and he kept twisting and struggling on the ground, but his head was pinned to the ground by Scott. After struggling for a while, it gradually stopped moving.


    Seeing this, Scott breathed a sigh of relief, and slowly pulled the dagger out of the bones of its cheek, holding it tighter. When pulling out, the walking corpse woman''s head was lifted off the ground, as if it was alive again. As if they came over, the two young people watching from behind were startled.


    When Du Dian saw this scene, he immediately knew that his guess was right. At this time, other scavengers also rushed over, and their faces became ugly when they saw several bloody corpses at the scene.


    At this moment, Scott turned around and saw that the two young men hadn''t made a move, and couldn''t help but said angrily: "Do you want to die, still keep him, and when he wakes up again, the first one will kill you! After speaking, he came to the two with the bloody sword, looked down at Aaron who they were carrying, took a deep breath, clenched his teeth and stabbed the sword through his throat, twisting the dagger, Its head was cut off.


    Blood spurted out like a column.


    The two were pale, their legs were weak, and they kept retreating.


    Scott looked at them coldly, flung the blood on his sword, and said coldly: "This is the law of survival outside the giant wall. You can''t learn it from the instructor, either adapt or die!"


    Saying that, he glanced at Mia who was standing beside him silently bowing his head, sighed, and turned back to the other scavengers and said, "Light the fire and burn the corpses here, don''t let the smell of blood distract other monsters that haven''t been cleaned up. "


    Many of these scavengers are newcomers from Du Di''an and the others. At this moment, seeing such a real and cruel picture, they all turned pale and kept retreating. One of the short children said in horror: "I, I want to go home, I Don''t scavenge anymore, I don''t want any more money." After saying that, he turned around and ran like crazy.


    Scott said angrily: "Get him back for me!"


    Immediately, two consortium scavengers chased after them.


    At this moment, one of the scavengers suddenly widened his eyes, raised his hand tremblingly, pointed to Scott''s back, and said, "Old, boss, he, they have stood up."


    Everyone was startled and looked around in a hurry.


    Du Dian immediately saw that at the shop in the distance, the young man who was bitten first, and another female scavenger who had long been dead beside him, were sitting upright with difficulty. Like a fractured cervical vertebra, he looked up at the sky, and then, under everyone''s attention, his head twisted stiffly and slowly, as if the tissues inside were adapting rapidly.


    "Damn it!" Scott roared with an ugly face: "Everyone is ready to come with me!" After saying that, he rushed up first.


    Mia gritted her teeth and took the lead in following up. The other consortium scavengers hesitated for a while, and quickly chased after them. As for some of the newcomers who were with Du Di''an, they stared blankly at this scene, and some of their legs were weak. fell to the ground.


    Du Dian had seen Scott''s skills before, and guessed that he and Mia should be able to deal with the two transformed walking corpses, and immediately followed with a dagger.


    When Mei, Zha, and Sha saw Du Dian rushing out, they hurriedly grabbed him and said, "Are you crazy?"


    Du Di''an said quickly: "I''ll destroy the other two corpses, lest they also turn into walking corpses and come alive."


    The three were stunned for a moment, and immediately said, "I''ll go too."


    The four ran behind the scavengers of the consortium and came to the corpses they passed by. The two corpses belonged to the handsome young man and the chunky young man. Du Di''an looked at the corpse in front of his feet, hesitated for a while, or gritted his teeth and used a short sword to Their necks were chopped off.


    After all, he got two boosts, and his strength was twice as strong as that of ordinary adults, and the sharp dagger cut off their cervical vertebrae in one fell swoop.


    Du Di was thumping wildly in his heart. Although he knew that they were dead, he still felt a sense of guilt and fear like killing someone when he cut them up. At this moment, he suddenly heard a terrified scream, which came from the front, and he hurriedly looked back.


    I saw more than a dozen consortium scavengers rushing in front, including Scott and Mia, all terrified, turned and fled towards them.


    From the gap between their escaped figures, Du Dian suddenly saw that from the street in front of them, more than a dozen figures were swaying and all walking dead!

 Chapter 51: Heartbeat

    "This, so much!" Du Dian and Macon couldn''t help but frightened.


    At this time, Scott, who was running at the front, saw that they were still in a daze, and immediately roared: "Run!"


    Du Di''an woke up and hurriedly turned around and ran. Mei, Zha, and Sha hurriedly followed, running wildly, wishing they had two more legs.


    However, their physique and figure finally showed the gap at this moment. Scott and Mia behind them quickly passed them, flew towards the left side of the corner, and quickly disappeared from the sight of Du Di''an and the others. middle.


    At this time, the other consortium scavengers behind also caught up.


    "Go away, go away!!" A burly young man roared at the four of Du Di''an. After speaking, he pushed his big hand away and landed on the last Sham. With a thud, Sham was suddenly pushed to the side and fell to the side. Because of his fall, he tripped the young people who were rushing over from behind, and all of a sudden they fell on their backs, and fell four or five people to the ground.


    Du Di''an heard Sham''s screams, stopped quickly, looked back, and immediately saw that Sham, whose cheeks were scratched, fell to the ground, and just got up, another young man pressed his head with his hand and pressed it , and the young man took advantage of his strength to stand up and ran away quickly.


    Hundreds of meters behind them, more than a dozen walking corpses chased after them with their claws and claws.


    Du Dian''s face was pale, his fists were clenched tightly, his heart was beating wildly, deafening, he clenched his teeth suddenly, turned around and ran to Sham, grabbed his arm, and shouted: "Get up quickly. !"


    Sham hurriedly grabbed him. Du Dian drove his body, pulled him up, and immediately turned around and continued to run. At this time, the other consortium scavengers had already run in front of them, and the direction where Scott and Mia were running disappeared at the corner.


    Sham looked back and saw more than a dozen bloodthirsty corpses behind him. His scalp was numb, his legs were trembling, and he almost tripped over again.


    At this time, Macon and Zach also turned around and rushed over, hurriedly grabbed Sham''s body and dragged him forward.


    "Go to the right!" Soon, several people came to the corner, and Du Dian gritted his teeth.


    The three of Macon were startled, but they didn''t have time to ask more, so they could only follow Du Dian closely and ran to the right. At this moment, Du Di''an bit his palm in vain, blood oozing out, he took a big breath, grabbed a gravel on the ground, spit the blood from his mouth on it, turned back to the left side of Scott and Mia waited for the direction of the departure of the large army, and threw it away with all her might!


    dong dong!


    The stone fell to the ground in a parabola and rolled a few times.


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    At this time, they were already more than 30 meters away from the corner, and the walking corpse that was chasing behind came to the direction of the corner. As soon as they stepped out, they saw the stone flying in front of them. The next moment, the walking dead The corpse roared and chased in the direction where the stone was thrown.


    Several walking corpses behind it immediately followed behind it and chased after it.


    However, there was a walking corpse among them, which seemed to notice the Du Di''an people on the right, swaying and chasing after them.


    Du Di''an''s face changed, and he hurriedly glanced at both sides of the street, and suddenly saw that more than ten meters ahead, was the gate of a community, and there was a small shop covered with vegetation at the door, and immediately said: "Follow me!" Said, Run to this neighborhood.


    As soon as I ran over, I saw a few walking corpses lying on the ground here, and the security room at the door was already corroded by moss. From the exposed glass windows, I could vaguely see a human-shaped black shadow standing inside, Du Di''an dared not dare. Look again, quickly stepped over the corpse on the ground and rushed to the nearest building. The security door at the bottom of the building was unlocked and slightly open. A corpse fell on the doorstep. Judging from the clothes, it was also a corpse. walking dead.


    Du Di''an resisted the tremor in his heart, stepped on the back of the walking corpse, entered the door behind, and turned back to the three of Macon and hurriedly said, "Come in."


    The three of them saw the corpse at the door, and their faces were a little pale, but they still held back their fear and jumped from it. At this time, Du Di''an saw the walking corpse that was chasing before, and he had already chased up, and behind it, there was still Followed by two walking dead.


    Du Di''an''s face changed, he hurriedly grabbed the door and wanted to lock it, but found that the bolt was already covered with moss and could not be locked. He immediately gave up and continued to lock. Looking back, the building was dimly lit, and there was an elevator in front of him. , At this moment, the elevator door is half-open, and it is also covered with moss and vegetation. There are several corpses lying inside, some are walking corpses, and some are human skeletons that have rotted. The bones are dark, like rusted black iron.


    Du Di''an''s face was ugly, and he immediately ran down the stairs and said, "Keep up."


    The three of Macon quickly followed behind him.


    When Du Di''an entered the building, he saw the height of the building, at least about fifteen floors. He went straight up the steps and saw seven or eight corpses of walking corpses and rotting human bones from the steps along the way. There are canine skeletons.


    When they ran to the sixth floor, Du Dian was exhausted and out of breath. The same was true for the three of Macon. In fact, the previous battle with the bone-eating rat had already exhausted their physical strength. At this moment, they were completely frightened by fear. He had to flee for his life, breaking through the limit of his own physical strength.


    "Roar, Roar!"


    At this time, there was a hoarse roar from the bottom of the floor, which was approaching quickly, Du Dian looked down along the handrail of the stairs, and suddenly saw a few lime-grey palms grabbing the handrail and climbing along the stairs, but, climbing The speed of the climb was obviously hindered. However, seeing that they were still approaching, Du Di''an''s face became more and more ugly, and he continued to climb up through gritted teeth.


    Soon, Du Dian came to the twelfth floor and was so tired that he was panting. He heard the unconscious roar of the walking corpse at a distance of more than ten meters below. It was estimated that they should be about three floors away from him. , He was about to continue upward when suddenly, Sham pointed to an open room next to him and panted, "Dian, let''s hide in here, they shouldn''t open the door."


    Du Dian was stunned, and immediately reacted, saying, "Go in." He took the lead in getting in.


    The three of Macon immediately followed, and Du Di''an locked the door with his backhand. Due to the high floor, the moss and vegetation did not climb up, and the latch was easily locked. Du Di''an twisted the latch, locked it, and then quickly turned back and swept away. When I glanced at this family, I saw that the living room was extremely scattered. There was a rotting corpse lying on the ground, and there was a baby carriage next to it, and there was a baby corpse lying in it.


    Du Dian immediately said: "Move the sofa inside, block the door, and move lightly."


    "Sofa?" Some of Macon didn''t understand, but when they saw the direction of Du Dian''s fingers, they still understood what he was talking about. They ran over immediately. The three lifted the sofa, quickly moved to the door, and put it down gently. Arrive at the door.


    At this time, the dry roar outside the door became clearer and clearer, and Du Dian hurriedly made a silent gesture, stood on the sofa, and looked out the door through the cat''s eyes.


    The cat-eye lenses were extremely cloudy, and Du Di''an immediately saw a few vague figures that appeared from outside the door. It was the previous walking corpses. These three walking corpses seemed to climb the stairs and climb out of their inertia, and continued to climb up the stairs.


    Du Di''an breathed a sigh of relief, but his heart was still beating, and he was only a door away from this bloodthirsty monster. He felt that the world seemed to stand still, only the strong heartbeat echoed in his ears.


    "Roar!!"


    In vain, the door was slammed, and a hoarse voice roared out from the door, full of anger and hideousness.

 Chapter 52: Escape from the Dead

    Du Dian was startled and hurried to the door of the house. The old and rusty door lock fell off the door frame with the first punch of the walking corpse. Fortunately, there is a sofa behind it to cushion it. , was not directly pushed away.


    The three of Macon were so frightened that they hurriedly pushed them towards the sofa. As a result, the sofa cracked and shattered from the middle. The wooden frame inside the sofa was already rotten, unable to withstand the push of gravity, and suddenly turned into a coma. ground debris.


    At the same time, with a bang, Fang disciple was smashed, and a pale pale palm stretched in and grabbed it randomly. Fortunately, this was an adult walking corpse, much taller than Du Di''an, so there was no first place. Time caught Du Dian behind the door.


    Du Di''an''s face was pale, he forgot that these buildings had been corroded for three hundred years and had long since fallen into disrepair. He gritted his teeth suddenly and said to the three of Macon: "Jump from the window and go to the next floor."


    The three of Macon were a little panicked, but after all, they were children who had undergone three years of training, and they reacted quickly. Macon continued: "I will help you resist, you go first!"


    "Go!!" Du Dian roared.


    The three of them gritted their teeth and said no more. They came to the window next to them and looked down. The height of the twelve-story building made them feel dizzy for a while, but there was no way out at the moment. The object mounted on the wall outside, continued: "Let''s step on it and borrow strength, we should be able to grab the balcony on the lower floor."


    This is an air-conditioning box. Macon is the most courageous of the three. He glanced at it, and although he was a little worried about its firmness, he gritted his teeth and jumped up first.


    With a bang, the air conditioner couldn''t bear his weight, and collapsed immediately. Macon was so frightened that his heart stopped beating, but he was already prepared, and hurriedly stepped on the falling air conditioner in a panic. He grabbed onto the balcony on the ground floor below, and the falling air conditioner fell vertically. After smashing several air conditioners in a row, it fell straight into the grass beside the community, and there was a loud bang.


    Macon gritted his teeth and climbed to the balcony, looking back at Sham and Zach above, they had no choice but to jump straight down, Macon said loudly: "I''ll catch you, Sham, you first Jump!"


    Sham is the thinnest and the lightest among the three. He hesitated for a while, but looking at Macon with his arms outstretched, he jumped down with a heartbeat.


    With a swoosh, Macon grabbed his body with quick eyes and hands, but the inertia of the fall almost took him off the balcony. , gritted his teeth and pulled him to the balcony.


    Sham was a little stunned, almost thought he died like this, he looked at Macon with a face full of pain, and his heart was full of gratitude and guilt. At this time, Zach above said hurriedly: "Are you ready, I''m going to jump."


    Macon shook his arm and said to Sham, "Let''s catch him together."


    Sham nodded vigorously, and the two opened their arms and said to Zaki above, "Let''s jump."


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    Zach clenched his teeth slightly and jumped down.


    Macon and Sham spread their hands and immediately caught Zach. Macon''s arm was so painful that he lost consciousness, and he almost slipped his hand away, making his face turn pale with fright.


    When the three of them jumped off the balcony, at the door, Du Dian could no longer resist the push of the three walking corpses outside. The door, which was once sturdy but now crisp as scraps of paper, was already torn apart by the three walking corpses. He abandoned the door, knowing that Macon and the others had gone to the balcony of the room, he immediately turned around and ran towards the kitchen on the other side. Along the way, he lifted the TV, table, etc. on the table to the center of the living room, trying to slow down the pursuit of the walking corpses. .


    And this move did work. Although these walking corpses were far faster than him, their brains seemed to be not very good, and they didn''t know how to avoid them, and they tripped over the TV and table on the ground.


    At this time, Du Dian seized the opportunity, ran to the kitchen, and threw the kitchen knives and plates on the stage to the walking corpse, causing little damage, but successfully attracted them all.


    Du Di''an hurriedly got into the bathroom next to the kitchen, closed the door without any defense with his backhand, and glanced at the ventilation window of the toilet. It was made of aluminum alloy, but the edges were already rotten. The walls of the building fell off with layers of mud like blisters. Without saying a word, he stepped on the toilet and kicked it hard.


    With a bang, the window was kicked open.


    The narrow window is just enough for his body to pass through. If it is an adult, it is rather difficult and reluctant.


    However, when he stretched his head and looked out the window, the height of the twelve-story building, the cars covered with moss and vegetation on the street, like small steamed buns, made him dizzy. No need to look back, Du Dian also knew that the three walking corpses had already climbed up and rushed over.


    Only jump!


    He gritted his teeth and jumped.


    There is no air conditioner on the outside wall. After all, no one will install the air conditioner outside the bathroom. There are two white water pipes on the smooth tile wall, most of which are pipes for toilet drainage.


    Du Dian had already noticed that when he jumped, he grabbed the water pipe, and with a bang, the water pipe was like a piece of paper, and he was suddenly grabbed by him, and the water pipe below was also pulled by him and fell down immediately.


    Du Di''an''s face changed greatly, and he hurriedly backhanded!


    With a nailing sound, the dagger in his hand stabbed into the wall, suspending his sliding body.


    A heart that Du Di''an mentioned in the bottom of his mind fell slightly. When he saw that the door and the sofa were vulnerable, he thought that when he was scavenging before, he saw some traces of the swords of hunters fighting on the walls. As a result, he bet right Now, the wall is no longer strong, and the sword can cut a huge gap.


    Roar! Roar!


    At this moment, two hideous heads protruded out of the toilet window, and two walking corpses were lying on the window, grabbing at him with their teeth and claws.


    On top of their heads, another walking corpse rushed forward. The walking corpse squeezed frantically, squeezing the wall by the window to the point of falling off like mud, and the gap was widened. Watching its crazy appearance , Du Dian, who had just saved his life, couldn''t help but be startled, his pupils shrank suddenly, thinking of a terrifying possibility, he hurriedly looked down, only one meter away from the toilet window on the next floor, if there were two short swords at this time, He can easily leverage each other''s strength and climb to the next floor, but at the moment he has a short sword in his hand, and once it is drawn, it will fall immediately.


    Du Dian gritted his teeth and looked at the window sill more than a meter below his feet. The window sill was only half a palm wide. It was extremely difficult to jump on it, and it required a lot of courage.


    However, looking at the body of the third walking corpse that kept squeezing out, Du Di''an didn''t dare to wait any longer, his body swayed slightly, and he clenched his teeth and jumped.


    With a swoosh, his body quickly fell, and the soles of his feet stepped on the window sill of the toilet. However, because they were against the wall, the soles of his feet could not be stepped firmly, and the toes rubbed a little, and the body continued to jump down.


    In this short body distance, Du Di''an felt like his head exploded, a little blank. The next moment, his palm stretched out suddenly, and at the moment of falling, he grabbed the window sill.


    At that moment, it seemed to come alive again.


    Du Dian looked at the walking corpse that had squeezed out most of the body above his head, hurriedly raised his other hand, smashed the window hard, banged, and immediately smashed the window. I felt no pain, my palms grabbed the edge of the glass shards, quickly climbed up, and drilled through the window.


    Whoosh!


    Just as he got in, a gust of wind came from behind.


    Du Dian hurriedly looked back and looked down, but saw that the walking corpse finally squeezed out of the toilet window, fell straight down, and was thrown into the grass on the edge of the downstairs.


    At this time, due to the extrusion of the walking corpse, the space of the other two walking corpses suddenly increased, and Du Dian immediately saw that one of the walking corpses was lying on the body of the other walking corpse, roaring and grabbing towards him.


    Du Dian was stunned. Could it be that these undead corpses can only attack and have no sense of self-protection?


    He couldn''t help thinking of the previous battle between Scott and the walking corpse woman, and suddenly an idea popped into his heart.

 Chapter 53: The Walking Dead

    "No consciousness!" Du Di''an''s heart pounded, "These walking corpses are different from bone-eating mice. Although bone-eating mice are bloodthirsty, they have the consciousness that beasts should have, and know how to hide, sneak attack, avoid, and escape. And these The walking corpse is different, it will only instinctively rush to the prey, the attack posture is completely instinctive, there is no evasion, the awareness of sneak attack, like, like... a machine specially designed to kill!"


    "And it''s an incomplete machine. Once the prey is locked, there are no other skills except attack commands!"


    Du Di''an''s blood was boiling faintly, and he felt that he had captured a vital piece of information, and it was also the information that could keep him alive, "It will only attack madly, this is the most terrifying thing about the walking corpse, and it is also deadly. weakness!"


    At this time, Mei, Zha, and Sha from the other balcony heard the sound of the broken window, and hurried over to see Du Dian standing in the toilet, a little shocked, and said, "You, how did you come in from here? "


    roar, roar!


    At this time, the hoarse roar from outside the window also fell into the ears of several people.


    Hearing this sound, the three of Macon were shocked and suddenly realized that the walking corpses were in the toilet above their heads. It was obvious that Du Dian deliberately attracted them there. The reason for this was obviously to give them three A time to fight for his life, and he risked jumping out of a window without a foothold...


    These thoughts flashed across their minds in an instant, and the three of them immediately had red eyes.


    What is friendship?


    Even at the most critical moment, still thinking about how to save you!


    He didn''t even consider whether he could survive or not!


    Although Du Dian had helped them many times in the previous three years of training, and they had occasionally helped Du Dian, the four of them supported each other, but... that was all an assessment, and if they failed, they would go home at most. In front of them, it was bloody, cruel and real death. Standing in front of death, but still doing this, the three felt that their souls were trembling, they were grateful, moved, and they hated their weak anger.


    Du Dian didn''t notice the emotional changes of the three, and nodded slightly to them, saying that he was safe, and then looked back at the window, only to see that the two walking corpses were still struggling desperately, trying to squeeze out of the window, but because they couldn''t see it. His struggle was not as intense as before.


    Du Di''an was worried that they had retreated again, and turned around from the stairs, immediately stretched out an arm, and swayed gently outside the window, as if saying, come on, come on...


    When the two walking corpses saw the shaking arms, their eyes suddenly became violent, roaring and struggling frantically. With a bang, the walking corpse above suddenly broke free, driving a large piece of soft mud-like concrete by the window to fall down. .


    Du Di''an hurriedly put his arm away, so that he was not caught by it, otherwise he would be taken down.


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    At this time, the last remaining walking corpse occupied a large window, and easily struggled out, followed, and fell straight down. clear.


    Du Di''an breathed a sigh of relief, laying on the window and looking, I saw three walking corpses fell into the grass downstairs, stacked together, in vain, the top walking corpse twisted slightly, and staggered. , stand up again.


    Du Di''an''s face changed. He didn''t expect it to fall to death. Then he patted his head and forgot it. This monster can only be killed by destroying its head. Falling from a height of twelve floors will only make their bodies become Just a little broken.


    At this time, I saw the walking corpse shaking its body, looking up at Du Di''an, and roaring with its mouth open. Then, it suddenly climbed onto the wall, and its two sharp claws clasped the wall, as if climbing a rock. Climb up the wall.


    "I a... You think you are Spider-Man!" Du Di''an almost vomited blood, but fortunately, fortunately, he didn''t go upstairs before, but chose to go downstairs, otherwise he couldn''t stop them at all.


    The three of Macon moved closer to the window and looked at the walking corpse that was about to crawl, and their expressions changed greatly.


    Du Dian didn''t panic. After jumping from the twelfth floor to the eleventh floor, he felt as if he had died once, and then he noticed the weakness of these walking corpses. Don''t be afraid of these walking dead.


    "Give me the sword." Du Dian calmly said.


    Macon immediately understood what he was doing, and hurriedly handed him the sword.


    Du Dian held the dagger, looked at the walking corpse that was flying against the wall, and watched the stone gray middle-aged face approaching hideously, but he no longer trembled in his heart, but became calmer. About half a meter below the window, he suddenly held the sword and stabbed it out. With a puff, the short sword pierced precisely from its eye socket and penetrated directly into the soft brain tissue.


    The walking corpse trembled, and the body fell on its back as if it had suddenly lost its strength.


    With a bang, it hit the two walking corpses below.


    The two walking corpses didn''t move and seemed to be dead. Du Di''an took a look and found that because they were in a downward posture, their heads landed on the ground when they fell, causing their skulls to crack and die on the spot, and the third walking corpse fell on their bodies. , the buffer obtained did not directly fall to death.


    At this moment, all the three walking corpses were eliminated, and Du Di was relieved. Only then did he feel a pain in his whole body. From the battle of the bone-eating rat to the present, the continuous strenuous exercise made his physical strength completely exhausted, and he immediately sat on the toilet. On the toilet, looking at the three of Macon in front of him, he panted and smiled and said, "Are you all hurt?"


    Macon shook his head and sighed: "I can''t save you again. When you are in trouble, let us save it."


    Du Di''an laughed, "Fuck you, don''t curse me."


    For the rest of their lives after the catastrophe, the tense nerves of several people relaxed, and one by one sat on the ground to rest regardless of the mess on the ground.


    "You said, Scott and the others will be fine, right?" Zach said.


    Du Di''an suddenly thought of his previous act of throwing stones to lead the walking corpses to them, and his face changed. At that time, the situation was critical, and he didn''t have time to think about it. At this moment, he felt a little shudder. He didn''t expect that he would do such a thing. After thinking about it carefully, he secretly thought, maybe it was because he saw that the consortium scavenger pushed down Sham at that time, and he was too angry for a while, and this act happened.


    Or maybe, the deepest part of his heart is... evil.


    Du Dian shook his head slightly, stopped thinking about this, and said, "Take a rest and then go to them."


    The expressions of the three of them changed, and Sham suddenly said: "You said, why are there so many walking corpses all of a sudden, haven''t they been cleaned by the hunter adults? Is this the so-called cleaning?"


    Du Dian frowned slightly. He was also puzzled by this. If he left the Bone-Eater, he could understand. After all, in a head-on battle, these scavengers were not lost to the Bone-Eater, and the Bone-Eater was really difficult to hide in the sewers. kill. But these walking corpses are different. The difference in strength and speed is not an order of magnitude with them. Even if ten people encircle and suppress one, they will suffer heavy losses, not to mention so much left behind.


    "It should be ignored by these hunters, or... from another area." Du Di''an mused.


    The three of Macon were stunned and said nothing.


    After a while, Du Dian felt that he had almost rested. He patted the dust on his butt and stood up, looking at the dagger on the wall outside the window, a little distressed. Without the dagger, it would be extremely dangerous to encounter any monsters next.


    He thought about it for a while, and searched the room of this family. It turned out that the quilts and clothes left here were all torn apart like pieces of paper. He suddenly saw the vines crawling outside the wall. Ken''s dagger cut off a string, twisted it into a rope, and threw it to the hilt of the dagger nailed to the wall. After several consecutive attempts, it finally caught it. He pulled hard, and soon, the dagger came out of the wall. unplug.


    Withdrawing the dagger, Du Dian breathed a sigh of relief. At this moment, Sham''s panicked cry came in vain: "Dian, come here."


    Du Dian was startled, hurried to hear the sound, came to the windowsill where Sham was lying, and immediately saw that on the street outside the community, there were more than a dozen walking corpses wandering staggeringly, not walking all the way down the street. , but turned into the community.


    Du Di''an''s face changed greatly. Although these walking corpses were swaying slowly, they were obviously targeted, and from a high altitude, the route they were traveling was clearly heading towards them.

 Chapter 54: Anatomy

    "They''re looking for us!" Sham looked at the wobbly figures and said horribly, "Could it be that they smell us? It''s impossible, we are so far apart..."


    Du Di''an''s eyes were gloomy, staring at these wandering figures, thinking: "They should not have noticed us, otherwise they would not have moved so slowly, if it is to leave a smell, there are so many Scott and the others, leaving The smell should be much stronger than ours, unless, there are far more than a dozen walking corpses running from there, but more..."


    Macon looked at him hurriedly and said, "Dian, what to do now, they are approaching downstairs soon, and if this continues, they will definitely notice us."


    "Don''t panic." Du Di''an frowned, recalling the previous things, and suddenly thought of a question that was ignored, "If these walking corpses do not avoid consciousness, they can even do stupid things like jumping off the building, which shows that they are fundamentally There is no concept of death and no awareness of what danger is, so why do they hunt their prey?"


    "Scott said before that they would track the smell of blood, but if that''s the case, the smell of blood emanating from the corpses that were bitten by the walking corpse woman was enough to attract them all, even if those corpses were already After being eaten up, they will leave traces of blood on their mouths and hands after they bite the corpse. If other walking corpses are really bloodthirsty and crazy for blood, they will definitely bite the claws and mouths of their companions."


    "But, in fact, it didn''t. Those walking corpses chased after us when they saw us, completely ignoring the corpses on the ground."


    "This only shows that although blood will attract them, there is something more eager and crazy than blood!"


    Du Di''an''s eyes flashed with a dark luster, as if he knew everything, "The walking corpse woman heard the voice of Aaron running away, so she abandoned the corpse and chased after him, including the back, I used stones to divert them away. , it''s likely that it''s not the blood on the stone that really draws them away, but... the sound?"


    Inferring this conclusion, Du Dian was not happy, but frowned slightly. He always felt that he had overlooked a very important information. He continued to flip through the memories in his mind, and the scenes after he came to Area 8 flew by. The appearance of countless hunted corpses he had seen... In vain, he realized that, no, it was not a sound!


    In other words, sound is the same as blood. Although it can attract their attention, it is by no means what they desire most, nor is it their main way to track their prey!


    The real reason lies in Du Di''an and the others.


    That''s heat!


    That''s right, this is what Du Di''an thought of as their main way to catch their prey, which is to sense the heat on the prey. In simple terms, they are equivalent to having thermal vision! However, it can''t be called vision, because some walking corpses have pierced eyes and some protruding and broken eyes. Du Di''an speculates that their brains may have mutated a mysterious tissue that can automatically sense the surrounding heat.


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    Any warm-blooded animal will appear in their perception network.


    Although this speculation cannot be completely determined, Du Di''an feels that this is the most likely one to speculate from the information he has obtained so far. The three said: "Macon, you find some hard objects, throw them elsewhere, and see if you can use your voice to distract them, Zach, you immediately set fire to make a torch."


    The three of them were stunned for a moment, and their eyes suddenly brightened. Although they didn''t know what to do with torches, it was a good idea to use their voices to distract the walking corpses.


    "Look at me." Macon immediately ran into the room to search, broke a few muddy bricks from the bedroom wall, came to the previous kitchen, and threw them towards the building.


    With a bang, the bricks fell to the ground and turned into slag powder.


    The sound spread in the silent community, and the swaying walking corpses were immediately attracted to the past. Seeing that the method worked, Macon became excited and continued to throw, and the throwing became farther and farther, so that the walking corpses could be thrown away. far away.


    Du Di''an was relieved when he saw that the sound temptation was effective. Seeing that Zach also used the fire sickle to ignite the clothes searched in the room and made a torch, he immediately said: "Throw the torch out and see."


    Zach was stunned for a moment and couldn''t figure out what Du Dian was thinking, but he still listened to his words and threw the torch out. The flame rolled in the air, fell to the ground, and almost went out.


    Du Di''an immediately looked closely and saw the sound of the torch falling to the ground, which made the walking corpses running behind turn back, but Macon just threw the bricks again, and the loud noise caused these walking corpses to attract them again. After passing by, he quickly left the community and came to the place where the bricks fell outside the street.


    Du Di''an was suddenly surprised, did he guess wrong? He frowned, looking at the walking corpses that were distracted by the sound, and then he thought, if it was wrong, it would be wrong.


    At this time, the distance of the stones thrown by Macon had reached the limit, and the walking corpses surrounded the place where the stones fell, lingering for a while, and then suddenly staggered and wandered towards the community.


    The four Du Dian, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly widened their eyes and almost cursed.


    what''s the situation?


    Du Di''an was a little stunned and was led away. Why did he drill into this community so persistently? And looking at their direction, it is still in this building, and the only difference between this building and other buildings is that there are four more of them on it.


    "How could..." Sham said blankly.


    Sham hurriedly said, "Continue throwing."


    Macon reacted, hurried to the wall to buckle the bricks, and continued to throw. Soon, the wandering corpses were attracted again, which made several people a little relieved, but they were not happy at all, and they kept seducing the walking corpses with their voices, which was not a long-term solution, and it took a long time, said Maybe it also attracted walking corpses from other places.


    Du Di''an frowned, what was it about them that attracted these walking corpses?


    "Wait, if it''s heat... Can they tell the difference between flames and heat in living things?" Du Di''an suddenly thought of this, and his face changed slightly. If this is the case, there is no other way than reducing the heat in their bodies. feasible.


    However, if you want to reduce the heat, you can only take off your clothes.


    However, the nuclear radiation in the air is strong. If you take off your clothes, the radiation value in your body will increase rapidly.


    Du Dian lowered his head and pondered, and the three of Macon took turns throwing bricks. Whenever the walking corpse was ready to return to the community, they threw one, and the rhythm was controlled very stable, without throwing randomly.


    After a while, Du Dian made a decision and said to the three of Macon: "Who of you is willing to go down with me and carry a walking corpse up."


    Hearing this, the three of Macon were taken aback and said in astonishment: "Carry up the walking corpse? Dead or alive? What are you doing?"


    "It''s the three that just fell to death." Du Di''an said earnestly: "I want to dissect them."


    The fastest way to understand a thing is to see it thoroughly from the inside out. Although Du Di''an has no medical experience and does not know much about the human body, in such a harsh environment at this moment, there are limited methods that he can try. This is what he can do. The only way I can think of to get to know the walking dead as soon as possible.


    "Anatomy?!" The three of Macon''s eyes widened, looking at him like a monster.

 Chapter 55: Skull

    "Yes, if you want an autopsy, isn''t there one here?" Sham pointed to the living room, where there lay an old walking corpse, who should be the owner of this family.


    Du Di''an shook his head slightly, "I''m going to dissect the ones that have just died. Judging from their behavior before they were alive, as for those that have been killed by hunters, I''ll dissect them later to see what changes will happen to their bodies after they die. ."


    "I''ll go with you!" Zach gritted his teeth.


    Du Dian nodded slightly, immediately equipped with a short sword, pushed open the door, and followed Zach down the corridor. One of the corridors collapsed, but it was not difficult for the two of them. It was only the height of the corridor, and they could jump directly. past.


    Soon, the two came to the bottom floor, looked outside the door, and saw that the walking corpses were led away by Macon and Sham, and immediately opened the door lightly, ran to the corner of the side, and immediately saw three piled up on the ground. The corpses, although their heads were smashed, no blood came out. Du Dian stepped forward and grabbed the top walking corpse that was stabbed to death by himself, and whispered to Zach to come over and help.


    Zach''s face was pale, and no one wanted to approach this terrifying bloodthirsty monster again, but he still resisted the fear in his heart and stepped forward to support the other arm of the walking corpse and lift it up.


    With black soft armor for isolation, Du Dian was not worried about contracting the virus and radiation on the walking corpse, and carried it back to the building with Zach.


    This walking corpse is heavier than Du Di''an imagined. It seems to be a thin young man, but it feels like a fat man weighing two or three hundred pounds. Fortunately, he has been blessed twice, and his strength is that of an adult. More than three times, otherwise it would be extremely difficult to move the walking corpse.


    Soon, the two carried the body to the floor where the stairs collapsed, which was the ninth floor. Du Dian put down the corpse first, and came to the room to check it out. He didn''t see any hidden bone-eating mice and other dangers before he brought the walking corpse in.


    The original owner of this room died, and the blood on the ground was already covered with dust. There was the corpse of a teenage boy. Judging from the long fingernails, it was also a walking corpse. It was under the table not far from the boy''s corpse. , A corpse was lying down, with a very long head. It could be seen that it was a woman. The flesh and blood had been decomposed, and the corpse was also radiated into a dark, full of thick corpse odor.


    Du Dian went to the bedroom and took out some moldy and rotten quilts, covering the corpse on the ground to cover the pungent corpse odor, and then asked Zach to sweep away the scattered items in the living room to make an open space.


    At this time, Sham upstairs saw that the two hadn''t returned for a long time, and ran down. Seeing that they were in this room, he was relieved, but soon he looked at the walking corpse in front of Du Di''an''s feet, and said in a trembling voice: "Really, do you really want to dissect it?"


    Du Dian nodded firmly.


    Before today, let him dissect a human-like corpse, he would never dare to do it, but now, I have seen the bloody eating scene before, and Scott and Scott who ran by in despair. Others, he gradually realized that he can only rely on himself to survive, and no one can protect him, except for the sharp blade in his own hands!


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    Du Di''an held the dagger and gently poked at the corpse''s claws, and suddenly saw that the black and sharp claws were covered with extremely hard cuticles, as cold and hard as black iron. Like poking on steel.


    "This, is this a tissue that living things can evolve..." Du Di''an was secretly shocked. In addition to the claws, the feet of this walking corpse also grew like sharp claws. The dark cuticle covered most of the soles of the feet, which was extremely hideous.


    Du Di''an looked at its chest, still a little timid in his heart, he took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and stabbed, with a puff, the short sword pierced into its lime-gray belly, but no blood splashed out, Du Di''s An heaved a sigh of relief. To be honest, if he saw blood seeping out, he thought he would probably vomit. After all, Scott also said that these so-called walking corpses are all infected humans!


    Slightly opened the sword body, Du Di''an saw the tissue on the bevel of its incision, and his face changed slightly. I saw that under the slate-grey skin, there was actually brown flesh, and the blood seemed to solidify in the flesh. To be precise, it was like frozen flesh. inside.


    freeze?


    Du Di''an thought in vain that the body of this walking corpse was exceptionally cold, not only did not have the temperature that a creature should have, but it was as cold as an ice cube, and the body was at such a freezing temperature, no wonder there was no sign of decay.


    However, the other walking corpses that Du Di''an saw were killed by hunters, but there were serious signs of decay, especially the walking corpse of the woman who died in the bathroom at the beginning. The face and body were completely decomposed.


    Thinking of this, Du Di''an couldn''t help looking at the boy''s corpse in this room and immediately stepped forward to check.


    Like other dead walking corpses, the boy''s walking corpse''s head was also destroyed. It was split from the middle and divided into two parts. It should have been cut with some kind of extremely tough and sharp sword. face. The boy''s neck, arms, chest and other parts showed signs of decay to varying degrees. The skin was swollen like blisters. Du Di''an gently poked it with a short sword. The rotten skin was like tofu, and the tip of the sword easily penetrated into it. , seeping out dark red blood.


    Du Di''an smelled the strong corpse odor emanating from it, and his stomach was nauseous, and at the same time, he was a little dazed. Why do these walking corpses rot like humans after they die, emitting the same odor?


    Are these walking corpses really still alive?


    If it is alive, why is there no consciousness, not even the basic instincts that living things should have? !


    Du Di''an pondered silently, then got up and returned to the previous walking corpse, opened its eyelids, this is a western face, but the eyes are green, and there seem to be countless fibers in the pupils, do they track their prey, relying on this. eyes?


    Du Di''an was silent, using a dagger to gently cut open its nose, inch by inch, the raised nose was suddenly cut flat, revealing two deep black nostrils, Du Di''an glanced at it, frowned slightly, and turned sideways again. Its head, cut off its ears, and scooped out a vortex around its ears.


    This process made Zach and Sham look pale, and their legs trembled slightly. What they were afraid of was not the walking corpse, but Du Dian''s expression at the moment, which was a very focused, very serious expression. This kind of The expression made them feel a sincere chill from the bottom of their hearts, which was even more frightening than facing a living corpse. Even years later, they still couldn''t forget this scene.


    At this time, Du Dian emptied the ears of the walking corpse, and immediately saw that the ears were covered with thick dust. He was surprised that these walking corpses had not had their earwax removed for more than 300 years, and their ears had already accumulated a layer of dust. Another layer, like stuffing ear cotton, the hearing should be very weak, why is it so sensitive to sound? Could it be that they have evolved new organs to replace hearing?


    Du Dian pondered for a moment, pushed its chin away, and looked at its tongue. The tongue was already tattered, and it seemed that it was stabbed when biting the prey. It can be seen that this walking corpse really didn''t know how to protect itself, and there was no pain.


    Thinking of this, Du Di''an was startled in vain, thinking that when Scott killed the walking corpse woman, he nailed its head with a dagger, but it screamed and twitched. Since there was no pain, why would it Have such a reaction?


    His eyes flickered for a moment, and suddenly he swung the dagger, cut down the corpse''s mouth, cut in from the corners of the mouth on both sides, and pressed down with his palms. It fell abruptly, but there was still no blood.


    Du Di''an immediately cut off its head and looked into the head from the cut chin, which was full of upper cavity and cold flesh.


    He frowned slightly, a little embarrassed, but thinking that there were two spares downstairs, he immediately gritted his teeth, pierced it with a dagger, spun and stirred, and crushed the flesh and brain cells inside, and then knocked his head on the floor, Knock out all these crushed tissues.


    With a thud, suddenly, a hard object rolled out of the head, fell to the ground, rolled away, and stopped at the shoulder of the walking corpse.


    This is a thumb-sized, perfectly round dark blue sphere.

 Chapter 56: Soul Entity?

    Du Di''an, Sham, and Zach''s eyes fell on this dark blue ball, and couldn''t help but stunned, a ball fell out of the head...? This ball is naturally perfectly round, and the color is dark blue and beautiful. Obviously, it is not a hardening of intracranial tissue, but looks like a blue metal ball.


    It''s just, how can there be metal in the biological brain?


    Du Di''an was in shock, but he didn''t touch it with his hand, but lightly poked the ball with a short sword. The tip of the sword stabbed on it and immediately slipped, pushing the ball to the broken neck of the walking corpse.


    so hard! Du Di''an''s eyes moved, the activity of hard objects was poor, the infection rate was slow, and it would not penetrate like a liquid. He had the isolation of gloves. If it was simply touched, it should be fine, and he immediately reached out and picked it up.


    As soon as he caught this dark blue ball, Du Di''an felt a shock all over his body, and there was only one feeling coming from his finger nerves, which was cold!


    Extremely cold!


    Like holding a puck, he couldn''t help but think of the frozen blood in this row of corpses. Could it be because of this dark blue ball?


    At this time, the cold air seemed to spread, and climbed along the dark blue ball to Du Di''an''s arm. He felt that the temperature of the whole arm was dropping sharply, and it was a little stiff. He couldn''t help but put the dark blue ball on the other hand. Quick, this other hand also feels a little frozen. At the same time, Du Dian feels cold all over his body, as if he is in the black snow season, which is extremely cold.


    "How come, even if you hold a piece of ice in both hands, it''s just frozen hands, how can you feel cold all over your body and feel cold from the soles of your feet." Du Di''an was a little surprised. It was like playing snowballs in winter. It was cold, but his body was warm, but at this moment, he felt cold all over his body, as if his whole body was stuck to a piece of ice.


    He immediately put the dark blue ball on the ground, rubbed his hands with each other, and breathed a little, and then he felt a little warmer, but soon he felt a hunger in his stomach. He has not eaten since he was outside the giant wall. Something, he endured it, suppressed his hunger, and looked at the dark blue ball in puzzlement. Suddenly, he thought of a reason.


    "Endothermic!" Du Di''an woke up, "This dark blue ball will absorb heat, just like saltpeter in black powder. Saltpeter is not only one of the raw materials of black powder, but it can also make ice. In this world, most alchemists Warlocks have only mastered the use of saltpeter to make ice, but they have not yet discovered that saltpeter mixed with sulfur can explode..."


    Saltpeter makes ice because it absorbs the heat in the water, so the water freezes into ice.


    And he felt cold all over his body just now. Obviously, this dark blue ball also has the same heat absorption function as saltpeter. If you hold it in your hand, it will absorb heat along the arm until it absorbs all the heat of the body. The body temperature will also decrease. When it drops to a certain level, the heartbeat will naturally stop and freeze to death.


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    "No wonder, no wonder the body temperature of these walking corpses is so low and cold. It turns out that this thing is doing the trick, but how did this thing come from and why did it appear in the mind of the walking corpse?" Du Dixin was full of curiosity, If it is said that someone has colonized their brains, it is naturally unlikely. After all, there are so many zombies, and how much energy and time does it take to colonize one by one?


    "If it wasn''t artificially colonized, it would have grown by itself. However, although the walking corpse is a human being infected by a virus, it is still flesh and blood. How could such a hard metal-like object grow, and it also has such strange characteristics ?" Du Di was in a strange mood. At this moment, a figure suddenly jumped down from the stairs, which suddenly alarmed several people in the room.


    After seeing that it was Macon, several people were relieved.


    Seeing that the three of them were there, Macon was relieved and said, "Scared me to death, I almost thought something happened down there."


    Sham scratched his head and said, "I saw Dean''s anatomy fascinated, and I forgot to inform you."


    Zach reacted and hurriedly said, "You''re down, what about those walking corpses?"


    Macon rolled his eyes and said, "Of course I''m back again, I''m exhausted, you can change it."


    "I''ll go." Sham looked at the walking corpse whose head had been chopped off, only to feel the tumbling in his stomach, and said immediately.


    Du Di''an was interrupted by Macon, and he continued to think about it, but he had no clue. He couldn''t help sighing, and stopped digging in this area. The most important thing is to survive right now. Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he immediately turned to Zha. Qi and Macon said, "Come with me and go downstairs."


    The two were a little confused, but they followed.


    Du Di''an came downstairs and saw that the group of walking corpses outside were led away, and immediately sneaked to the corner, cut off the heads of the two dead walking corpses with a dagger, and then quickly ran back with their heads in hand. The building, seeing Macon and Zach immediately retreating, smiled and said, "It''s okay, they''re all dead."


    Macon said in horror: "You, when did you get so daring?"


    "Just wait until you get used to it." Du Di''an said, returned to the upper floor, and split the heads of the two walking corpses according to the previous method. He cut it open, and as he expected, there was an identical dark blue ball inside.


    When cutting the third head, Du Dian suddenly thought of a problem, and immediately stopped the previous rough cutting method, but slowly opened the head along the cracked position of the skull, and soon, he saw the picture inside the skull, Unsurprisingly, the brain tissue inside the head was also extremely cold, as if it had been frozen, and the dark blue ball was lying in the brain tissue package.


    However, probably due to the crack of the skull, the brain tissue at the dark blue ball was somewhat damaged. Du Dian searched carefully for a while, and soon realized that this dark blue ball was the main reason for controlling the action of the walking corpse!


    There are two reasons for the so-called destruction of the head to kill the walking corpse. The first is to destroy the central nervous system in the head, so that the head cannot control the body. The second is to destroy the connection between the dark blue ball and the brain tissue in the head. The place!


    To put it simply, this dark blue ball is like an ovary in the brain tissue. It is not necessary to destroy the head to kill the walking corpse. As long as it is a strong shock, the dark blue ball will be shaken out of the ovary of the brain tissue, so that the If the dark blue ball loses contact with the nerves in the ovarian wall, it can stop the walking corpse from moving, that is, kill the walking corpse!


    After understanding this, Du Di''an became more and more puzzled. What is this dark blue sphere, and why does it grow in the brain of a walking corpse? Is it made by a virus? So, isn''t this dark blue sphere a virus condensate?


    Thinking of this, Du Dian immediately rolled the dark blue ball with the picked up fabric layer by layer, wrapped it into a fist-sized ball, relaxed a little, and then handed two to Macon and Zach, saying: " This thing can absorb body temperature and help us reduce body temperature, but don''t hold it all the time, it will absorb body temperature, it is best to put it in a backpack."


    Macon and Zach looked at these two things wrapped in layers in surprise, Macon asked curiously: "What is this?"


    "I don''t know, but after those hunters kill the walking corpses, they will dig out this thing in their heads, indicating that it should be very valuable, otherwise these hunters will not turn a blind eye to gold and other things, and go to dig it out. Take this thing." Du Dian said, he has seen many walking corpses with their heads split open, but none of them have this in their heads, so it can be seen that they have been picked up by hunters.


    Macon was shocked: "You said that hunters kill walking dead, just for this?"


    "maybe."

 Chapter 57: Melting

    "Speaking, grabbing the gravel on the ground, looking at the walking corpses wandering at the gate of the community, and suddenly found that the number of these walking corpses has increased by a few more, and there seems to be a single walking corpse at the street entrance in the distance. Come wobbly.


    Du Di''an immediately grabbed the stone and threw it to another place, leading the walking corpses to the other side of the building.


    Ten minutes later, Macon and Zach gathered the combustibles that could be ignited in the open space under the building, forming a circle. At this time, Du Di''an kept throwing stones or glass into the open space in the center of the circle of clothes and wood. The violent sound immediately attracted the attention of the group of walking corpses, and immediately staggered over and entered the center of the circle.


    At this time, Macon, who had been instructed by Du Dian in advance, saw this, and immediately threw the lit torches on the second floor. Four or five torches rolled from the air and fell onto the combustible material. Due to the close height, only one of the five torches was lost, and the others The four of them all fell on the clothes, and immediately, the flames burned along the clothes, and soon the whole circle was ignited, and the clothes and the rotten wooden furniture burned into a raging fire.


    The walking corpse in the center of the burning circle seems to instinctively avoid the flame consciousness, and when the flame burns, it immediately runs towards the outside of the circle.


    Seeing this, Du Dian''s face changed slightly, and he immediately continued to throw stones and glass, attracting these walking corpses with violent noises. However, these walking corps had a particularly strong fear of fire, and the sound could not attract them.


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    Du Dian''s face changed, and he hurriedly shouted downstairs: "Let the fire on them!"


    Mei, Zha, and Sha were stunned for a moment, and they reacted immediately, and immediately executed the second set of backup plans prepared by Du Dian, which was to set fire to the corpse! This plan was originally worried that the burning circle did not burn the walking corpses inside, and was going to put a fire on them, but now it just happened to come in handy.


    The three quickly picked up some sheets and other clothes on the ground and threw them to the walking corpses in the burning circle downstairs. Soon, the walking corpses were hit by the clothes. Although they were not injured, they ran out of the burning circle covered with sheets, quilts and other objects. At that time, it was ignited by the fire, and soon the whole body burned.


    Du Di''an breathed a sigh of relief and watched quietly. It didn''t take long for the flames to go out. There were seven or eight charred corpses lying in the burning circle. , fled hundreds of meters away, and continued to sway, approaching here.


    Du Dian immediately threw stones to lead them to a distance, and then let Sham come to replace him, and continued to use his voice to lead them away. The arm of a walking corpse seemed to be slightly raised, and I couldn''t help being startled. Didn''t the flames burn them?


    "The body is burnt, can the dark blue ball in the head actually control them..." Du Di''an''s face changed, and he greeted Macon and Zach to continue throwing combustibles down, covering these walking corpses and letting them The fire is more intense.


    After burning for seven or eight minutes, Du Dian carefully observed these walking corpses for a while, threw stones into their center, and saw no response, so he breathed a sigh of relief and called Macon and Zach to go down and collect the corpses.


    The three came downstairs, and when Sham led the rest of the walking corpses away, they immediately rolled up gloves with cloth, dragged these charred corpses downstairs, and chopped off their heads.


    After seeing Du Dian do it a few times, Macon and Zach gradually let go of their courage and tried to cut off the scorched corpse''s head.


    Soon, the heads of these charred corpses were cut off, a total of eight.


    Du Di''an cut off their heads directly, and suddenly saw that the tissues in their skulls had softened. However, to Du Di''an''s astonishment, the dark blue ball in their skulls was also melting, and now it has melted from the size of a thumb When the size of soybeans is reached, the melted liquid is a translucent color like water, and when they come together, it can be seen that the color is a little dark blue.


    "This dark blue ball is afraid of high temperature?" Du Di''an was stunned.

 Chapter 58: The Wounded Hunter

    Du Di''an rolled his eyes angrily. He was frightened like a ghost before, and when he mentioned wealth, he became bloody. These two wealth fans!


    The three packed up and continued to burn the corpse.


    Half an hour later, the walking corpses wandering outside the community were all killed by a few people using the burning circle. Together with the three walking corpses that were hunted down earlier, a total of twenty-one dark blue spheres were harvested.


    "Where are we going next?" Macon said excitedly, carrying a backpack of dark blue orbs: "Go to the gray area that Scott said? It hasn''t been cleaned, there must be a lot of walking dead..."


    Du Di''an was speechless and said: "Are you crazy, haven''t you seen how many walking corpses are killed by hunters on this street? I really want to go to the gray area, and before you can arrange it, I will be surrounded by a sea of walking corpses. Now, don''t get into the money eye."


    Hearing this, Macon shivered and turned pale when he recalled the number of walking corpses he saw along the way.


    Zach sighed lightly and said: "Dian is right, going to the gray area is too risky, and there must be more bone-eating rats there than here, this beast is not as mindless as a walking corpse."


    Sham whispered: "Let''s go to Scott and the others, they have a map and know the way back, and there should be a lot of walking corpses led away by them, let''s help them in the past, and we can hunt them by the way. The walking dead."


    Du Dian nodded and said, "Just do this, eat something first to replenish your strength."


    After a while of fighting and busy work, several people were too tired to rest. Now, when they heard it, they all felt their stomachs rumbling. They immediately opened their backpacks and took out the dry food and water inside to eat. However, three years of training taught them to be temperate. Everyone took a few bites and drank a little water before stopping because, since no new food source was found, the contents in this backpack were probably theirs for ten days. food!


    When the few people were about to start again, a figure suddenly came running from the street outside the community.


    The speed of this figure was extremely fast. When he saw the corner in front of him, he immediately jumped up and went directly over the top of the security pavilion next to the community. respite.


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    And this scene suddenly fell into the eyes of Zach, who had been on guard.


    "Dian, come and see." Zach quickly greeted Du Dian.


    Du Dian was stunned, walked over quickly, and immediately saw the position that Zach pointed to, under the adjacent floor, leaning against a young man in black armor, with a dark bow and arrow on his back, carrying a quiver on his back, like a The silent ghost archer. However, the way he clutched his right arm revealed that he was injured at the moment.


    "Hunter?" Du Dian was stunned.


    When Zach, Macon, and Sham heard his words, they couldn''t help but be stunned for a while, and immediately realized that they were not dressed like this among the scavengers, and the collective configuration of the scavengers was all short swords. Swords are not used for fighting, but for peeling tree bark, or for scavenging when encountering things that need to be cut. In the definition of consortium, scavengers do not need to fight. If they encounter monsters that have not been cleaned up, they can only run. If they can run away, they are lucky. If they can''t run away, they can''t help themselves.


    Just like cannon fodder on the battlefield, its only function is to consume the opponent''s ammunition, not to take the enemy''s head and bring victory. Each position is assigned value within its respective function, which is management.


    "Hunters?" Mei, Zha, and Sha were a little excited. For their scavengers, hunters were unattainable beings. They were the existences that could truly compete with nobles and were qualified to negotiate terms with nobles!


    And their scavengers, all their lives, are just scavengers! Good or bad, high or low, all depends on the material value of their scavenging, but no matter how high the value is created, they will only be a scavenger, because they do not have a bright constitution, this is something that cannot be changed.


    The consortium will do seed cultivation for Du Di''an. In addition to looking at Du Di''an''s scavenger special training results, the main thing is to investigate his resume, and his body radiation value content equal to the hunter''s bright physique is what makes the consortium willing to give His chance to become a hunter.


    Otherwise, no matter how high the value Du Dian created for the consortium and how expensive the scavenger materials were, they were destined to be only scavengers.


    Du Di''an was not happy, because he had seen hunters, and after coming to the outside of the giant wall, he witnessed everything like the ruins and the bloody pictures of corpses everywhere. He understood that these hunters who fought in this environment all the year round, It''s definitely not a good generation, which is why Fino almost killed him for telling him about the hunter, because in the eyes of the other party, life has long been so humble and weak...


    "This is the hunter of the consortium." Du Di''an noticed the medal on the young man''s chest and felt a little relieved. If it is the hunter of other consortiums, they had better not expose it, otherwise 100% may be silenced.


    When Du Di''an and several people observed each other, the hunter noticed the traces of the burning circle on the ground not far away, and couldn''t help but stunned. He didn''t expect someone to be here. There was a hint of joy in his eyes, and he immediately ran lightly to the burning Before the circle, I suddenly felt the residual temperature of the ashes of the burning circle, which was extremely hot, and it could be seen that it had just been extinguished.


    He glanced at the walking corpse on the ground, and his eyes showed a bit of doubt and disappointment at the same time. However, he suddenly thought of something, his eyes lit up again, and he immediately looked at the ground. Soon, he found a nearby building. A smile suddenly appeared, and the figure rushed in quickly.


    "He noticed it." Macon said quickly.


    Zach looked at Du Dian and said, "Dian, it shouldn''t matter if he knows about us, will he snatch this from us?"


    Du Dian sighed inwardly at the keen observation of the hunter, and at the same time felt the gap between himself and the hunter, and instantly judged where they were at just a glance. This was obviously a seasoned veteran. He glanced at Zach. , shook his head and said, "I shouldn''t want it. After all, there are tens of thousands of walking corpses on the ground, and he should disdain us for this."


    Hearing this, the three of Zach breathed a sigh of relief.


    At this time, the disciple of the room rang twice, but the hunter appeared at the door of the room, silently, as if standing there from the beginning, with a hint of surprise on his face, as if he did not expect it. It was actually a few children who burned the walking dead with flames.

 Chapter 59: The Hunting Level of "The Walking Dead

    "I''ll do it myself." The black armored youth grabbed the bottle, flicked his finger, and the bottle cap flew out. He released his arm and sprinkled alcohol on it, his face twitched in pain, but he still clenched his teeth tightly to hold back.


    Du Dian and Macon immediately saw his wound. It was a sharp claw mark, and the bones were deep. The skin at the wound had festered. The black armored youth held it tightly before, not to endure the pain, but to not let the wound be. blood spread.


    The black-armored youth grabbed the red-hot knife, gritted his teeth and cut it one by one, and quickly dug out the festering flesh from the wound. , He just kept silent, clenching his teeth tightly.


    This shocked Du Di''s heart. Is this the quality of a hunter? Even the iron-blooded soldiers who often go to the battlefield may not have such strong willpower, right?


    At this time, after removing the bad meat, the black armored youth asked Macon to help him bandage it. It didn''t take long for the right arm to be bandaged with layers of gauze. The black-armored youth wiped the sweat from his forehead, sighed lightly, and leaned against the wall to pant slightly.


    Du Dian glanced at him and said calmly: "Lord Hunter, hasn''t the No. 8 area been cleaned up? Why are there so many walking corpses? Did they migrate from other nearby areas?"


    "Don''t quarrel with me!" The black armored youth closed his eyes gently and said displeasedly.


    Du Dian was stunned, and immediately stopped talking.


    A few minutes later, the black armored youth said, "You still have something to eat, give it to me."


    Macon, who was waiting beside him, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Lord Hunter, this is our food. If you eat it, we..."


    The young man in black armor opened his eyes immediately, as if a cold lightning flashed, and said, "Why, you don''t want to?"


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    Macon was startled and hurriedly said, "No, no, just, just..."


    "Here is my stockpile, there''s not much left, my lord will give it to you, Macon is ignorant, so don''t take offense." Sham, who was next to him, said quickly, and handed out his backpack, shook it off, and put it inside. The dry food was presented and handed to the youth in black armor.


    Macon and Zach''s faces changed slightly. Although they admired the hunters, it was different when it came to their own losses. They couldn''t help but look at Du Di''an, but saw Du Di''an nodded slightly, as if acquiescing.


    The two of them couldn''t help but feel stunned, and they could only secretly feel the pain in their wrists.


    The black-armored youth patted Sham''s head and said, "You are still sensible, little guy." After saying that, he grabbed the dry food he handed over and ate it up. After eating, he stretched out his hand: "Water."


    Sham hurriedly handed it to him.


    The young man in black armor drank the water in one gulp, threw the empty water bag aside, continued to sit and rest for a while, then slowly got up and gently moved his right arm for a while. It seemed that the simple dressing had stabilized his injury. He smiled with satisfaction, then looked down at the four of Du Di''an, narrowed his eyes, and suddenly pointed at Macon and said, "Little guy, come with me."


    Macon was taken aback, "Go, where?"


    "You''ll know when you go." The black armored youth laughed.


    Macon hesitated and said, "Are you going back? But I still have a mission..."


    "Just follow if you want to, why so much nonsense!" The black armored youth immediately frowned and said impatiently.


    Macon was a little stunned, realizing that something was wrong, and couldn''t help looking at Du Dian.


    Du Di''an also felt a little unusual and said: "Lord Hunter, we respect you very much, but we have our own tasks. If we fail to complete them, we will be expelled by the consortium. I hope you can understand. If you need any assistance from us. , as long as you instruct, we are happy to serve, as long as it is within our ability."


    "Hmph, the little guy is quite good at talking. I need your help now. Seeing that you are in a good relationship, the four of you can come together, even if there are many people." The black armored youth waved his hand impatiently, the last sentence seemed to be to himself murmured.


    Du Di''an''s face changed slightly and said, "Can you tell us what we are doing?" What he said before was only polite, they are just scavengers, how can they help the hunters, and the hunters need their assistance, it must not be It''s commonplace, after all, the hunter''s mission is to hunt monsters!


    The young man in black armor narrowed his eyes, and a trace of anger flashed through his eyes, but he seemed to think of something, the anger in his eyes quickly subsided, a smile appeared on his face, and he said, "It doesn''t matter, I found some precious materials, but I One person can''t carry too much, the four of you come with me and help me carry it back to the giant wall, don''t worry, I will tell the above, this batch of supplies will be divided into half of you."


    Hearing this, Mei, Zha, and Sha were startled, and Macon couldn''t help but be surprised: "My lord, is this true?"


    "You won''t lie to us, will you?" Zach said excitedly.


    Only Sham was slightly puzzled, and seemed to think something was wrong, but he couldn''t think of the reason, so he could only look back at Du Dian.


    When Du Di''an heard the words of the black armored youth, he immediately knew that he was lying. The hunters didn''t even want gold. What materials are more precious than gold? However, even though they belonged to the same consortium, he felt that this young man in black armor was not an easy-going character, and if he resisted head-on, he would probably suffer.

 Chapter Sixty: The Thing That Seduces

    Du Dian followed behind, observing and studying silently. Only then did he know that in this era of cold weapons, people have developed fighting skills to an extremely advanced level. The killing fighting skills shown by this black armored youth alone made Du Dian amazed. Killing people is like mowing the grass, the movements are neat and neat, and even if the arm is injured, it is not at all sloppy.


    Is this a warrior cultivated on the edge of life and death?


    "Lord Hunter, you, will you save Scott and the others, there are many of them, they should be not far from here..." Macon asked boldly, the black armored youth sheltered them along the way, making them feel that this The young man in black armor seems to be not bad by nature, and he has a good feeling in his heart. As for the matter of eating Sham''s food and water before, he has long been automatically ignored.


    The black armored youth snorted coldly and said, "What do you think I am, a medical staff?"


    Macon was stunned. At this moment, the young man in black armor changed his face in vain and looked back at the street. Du Di''an noticed that the place he was looking at was the first place they fled, and the street where the walking corpses first appeared!


    Faintly, Du Dian seemed to feel the ground under his feet trembling gently, as if a tall building was collapsing in the distance, and there was a gentle roar.


    The young man in black armor narrowed his eyes, and a bloodthirsty color flashed through his eyes. He raised his head and glanced at the surrounding buildings. Soon, his eyes locked on the top of the tallest office building nearby. The building has already been covered with moss and vegetation, and the windows are rusty and dilapidated. He glanced at him with a smile on his face, lowered his head and said to Du Di''an: "You wait here, you must not leave without my order. !"


    Du Dian''s face changed and he said, "What about you?"


    "I have something to do, I''ll be back soon." The black armored youth looked serious and said coldly: "Remember, you must not leave without my order. If anyone leaves here without authorization, don''t blame me for being ruthless!" Glancing at the four with gloomy eyes, he said, "It''s best to remember my words, or even if you return to the consortium, I will rip your skin off!"


    After speaking, he looked back at the previous position, sneered, turned and left quickly, like a black and dexterous cat, rushed to the front of the office building, got in, and disappeared in the sight of Du Di''an.


    "This, this..." Macon was a little stunned. "Where is he going?"


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    Du Di''an looked at his disappearing back, and there was an ominous feeling in his heart. Suddenly, he thought of the bow and arrow on the back of the black armored youth.


    High buildings, bows and arrows...


    His pupils shrank suddenly, and the archers were condescendingly ambush. Could it be that they were used as bait by the black armored youth to lure something?


    "Run!" Thinking of this possibility, Du Di''an suddenly roared and ran to the office building quickly. Before the black armored youth climbed to the top of the building, he must escape from this area as soon as possible, otherwise, when the time comes If they move slightly, they may be shot and killed by the other party on the spot!


    Having seen the opponent''s previous methods of killing walking corpses, he did not have the confidence to keep himself from being shot under the eyes of a hunter who was good at bow and arrow.


    Mei, Zha, and Sha were a little stunned and puzzled, but their long-term trust still allowed their bodies to follow Du Dian subconsciously. While chasing, Macon hurriedly said: "Dian, what happened, why? To run, if he finds out, we¡­¡±


    Du Di''an had previously seen the black armored youth kill the walking corpses all the way to protect them, and he still had a bit of goodwill in his heart, but now it has disappeared, and said coldly: "We are likely to be used by him, using it as bait to lure his prey. !"


    "Being a bait?" Mei, Zha, and Sha were stunned, and they shuddered when they thought of the possibility of such a possibility.


    Du Di''an had already run down to the office building, breathing lightly, and when he looked back and saw that all three of Macon had followed him, he was relieved and said, "Go around to the other side and don''t let him find out."


    Zach¡® face was ugly, and he said, "If he meets him afterwards, he should not forgive us lightly. Even if he escapes and returns to the giant wall, he will not give us good fruit to eat."


    Du Di''an''s eyes were cold, and he said coldly: "Then kill him!"


    Hearing this, the three of Macon couldn''t help but startled, and then looked at him in astonishment.


    Macon couldn''t help but said: "Kill him? My God, do you know what you are talking about, he is a hunter, how can we kill... No, how can we kill him, even if we can kill him, it''s a big sin what!"


    "Dian, are you sure?" Sham''s face paled slightly and said, "If your guess is wrong, he just let us stand there, and he left for a bit of his own personal affairs, aren''t we..."


    Du Di''an was stunned, this possibility is indeed there, but... how could he bet?


    There is only one life, if his conjecture is correct, staying there is waiting for death! Obviously, the hunters who can easily kill the walking corpses need bait to hunt things, which is absolutely terrifying. When they see that thing, they are basically doomed to be unable to escape!


    Although there are many other possibilities, this is the biggest possibility he can think of. If he is wrong...just be wrong!


    Du Dian thought of the desert assessment three years ago, the three-star alchemist Rosyard who died in his hands, the hesitation and hesitation in his heart were immediately settled, this is a choice, maybe it is just a possibility that he speculates, or even This possibility is wrong, but he still has to make a choice, that is to kill!


    "We have left there, no matter whether the speculation is right or wrong, we must kill! Otherwise, we will be suppressed by him in the future, or even die in his hands!" Du Di''an said with cold eyes and resolute determination.


    The three of Macon looked at him, took a breath, and hesitated. After all, they were murderers when they participated in the killing of hunters. For any good citizen, the word murderer is too much. heavy!


    Du Di''an also looked at them, waiting for their choice, and at the same time there was a little fear in their hearts. What if they didn''t choose not to participate, but they knew their actions?


    He didn''t dare to think about it any longer. In the short period of time he came here, he felt that an evil door closed in his heart was slightly opened, and a lot of evil thoughts were released.


    It''s just that something is his bottom line, and he doesn''t want to cross it.


    Roar! !


    At this moment, a low roar sounded in vain from the corner where the previous few people were.


    Several people in Du Di''an couldn''t help but look at them, and they were immediately horrified and pale.

 Chapter 61: "The Fear of Dying"

    Du Di''an was also pale, and when he heard Sham''s words, he hurriedly said: "We can''t hide, we have to go to the top of the building to find him!"


    Macon trembled: "He, he won''t save us, we violated his words..."


    "It''s not asking for help, we''re going to kill him! Or, lead that thing to him, even if it''s dead, pull him back!" Du Di''an clenched his fists, his heart was full of fear, and his anger was extremely strong, his Guess is right, that bastard really used them as bait, and thanks to them helping him a bandage and deal with the wound before, not only did he not know how to be grateful, but he even bit back!


    Moreover, this bite was too deep and painful, and it completely killed them!


    Beast!


    Du Di was never so angry in his heart, and he went up the corridor quickly, and at the same time, his mind was thinking very fast.


    ...


    ...


    At the top of the high-rise building, Byrne observed the Dread Dreader who was looking around on the street through the cracks in the broken wall, and saw that it suddenly froze and looked in the direction of the high-rise building. It had found the smell of the four little beasts!


    A cold light flashed in Byrne''s eyes, and he secretly said, "Damn little bastard, can''t you just wait until you die, you have to run, thinking that you can save yourself by escaping into the building, and you will be bitten to death by it later? , worthless rubbish! Beasts! bastards!"


    He knew that the four of Du Di''an were dead, and there was no ''walking corpse powder'' to cover up the smell, and they would be found by the fearful. It''s just that he couldn''t be happy, instead, he gritted his teeth in anger, dying in the building was of no value to him, he couldn''t find an angle to attack the building, the open street before was his most perfect The hunting ground, and in the building, is the worst terrain for a hunter like him who specializes in long-range bows and arrows!


    At this time, he saw that the Dread Dreader had already got into the building, and immediately calculated the time in his heart. With the speed of the little devils going upstairs, if he left the street from the moment he entered the building, he should be at the moment. From the fourth floor to the sixth floor, at the speed of those who are afraid of dye, they will catch up when they run to the tenth floor!


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    And he was on the twenty-third floor.


    When he climbed to the top floor, he had already recorded the number of floors in this building. As a battle-hardened hunter, his observation and coping abilities were beyond the imagination of ordinary people.


    "If the battle broke out on the tenth floor, the distance from me to the tenth floor, with the smell of the dye-dreading person, I don''t know if I would smell it." Byrne frowned and felt a little uneasy in his heart. After all, this fear dyed He has only seen simple information in hunting manuals, describing the "extremely sensitive sense of smell", but it is unknown how sensitive it is.


    After thinking about it, he took out the bottle of walking corpse powder, poured it all on the black armor, and evenly smeared it on all parts of the body, while thinking and calculating quickly in his mind, "Now, they should be on the eighth floor, those who are afraid of dye should be After chasing them to the sixth floor, it is estimated that they will be eaten after a while, if the Dread Dangers eat them and feel me, they can only jump from here."


    He began to think about a retreat plan. After all, he couldn''t pin all his hopes on the walking corpse powder.


    As time passed, Byrne''s muscles were tense, his lips were squirming slightly, calculating the time, simulating the following process in his mind, secretly said: "These little ghosts should be dead, let''s see if it will leave the building, Still catching up."


    He held his breath and waited as if time had frozen in his mind. In vain, there was a roar from the building at the foot of it, and a giant black shadow jumped out, opened its roaring mouth, and swooped towards Bien.


    Byrne''s pupils shrank, and he hurriedly jumped back, letting this sneak attack fail. When he fell down from the building, he saw the shards of backpack bag fabric hanging on the fangs of the Dread Dreader.

 Chapter 62: Hunting in the Building

    Whoosh!


    Byrne fell straight down the side of the building. At the same time as he fell, he saw the "Dread Dye" standing in his previous position, the front claws overturned the broken wall that had been corroded, the stones rolled down, and "The Dread Dye" did not jump down. After roaring a few times, he turned his head, and his body disappeared by the wall again, most likely going downstairs to collect his corpse.


    He breathed a sigh of relief, quickly grabbed the bow and arrow on his back, and pulled out an arrow from the quiver, which was inserted into the groove of the quiver. Rope, he twisted his head and aimed at another four-storey building on the side, the bow was full, and the arrow flew out of the air!


    With a swoosh, the arrow landed on a solar water heater on the top of the building with great strength. It penetrated the solar water heater covered with moss and tied it straight to the floor under the bracket. The rope was more than ten meters long. , immediately tightened as his body fell.


    The rope was stretched and folded off the edge of the building. With heavy force, a deep groove was formed in the corner of the already corroded concrete. Byrne, who was holding the rope, slammed into the window of the second floor below with a bang like a swing. The glass shattered in an instant, and he also cut the rope with a dagger at the moment of smashing in. After two consecutive rolls to release the force, he quickly got up and flew forward without turning his head.


    It didn''t take long for the "Dreader" to rush out of the previous building. By this time, Byrne had already disappeared without a trace. It raised its nose, sniffed lightly, looked left and right for a moment, and finally locked its direction and followed the way of worship. The location where En left caught up with the past.


    About four or five minutes after the "Fear Dye" left, four figures quietly figured out beside a pillar at the bottom of the building, all bloody and dirty, it was Du Di''an and the four.


    "It should go far," Sham said in a low voice.


    Du Dian looked at the direction where the giant beast was leaving, his eyes flashed slightly, and he whispered: "Let''s catch up and have a look, we must find the hunter!"


    Hearing this, Mei, Zha, and Sha were taken aback, and Macon lowered his voice and shouted: "You are crazy, and you chase after him. It can find the bastard on the roof all at once, which shows that its sense of smell is extremely terrible. If you are not careful If you get close to it, and it smells us, it''s over."


    "With this layer of plasma covering, it can''t be smelled for the time being." Du Dian glanced at the stench of blood on his body and said, this blood was made by the walking corpse in the corridor. When he climbed up the second floor, he happened to see it. The walking corpse that fell in the corridor suddenly came up with this idea, which is to smear the blood in the walking corpse on them, cover up the smell, and pretend to be a walking corpse!


    The dark blue balls in the heads of these walking corpses were taken out, their body temperature returned to normal, and they began to rot.


    Du Di''an noticed that the monster ignored the walking corpses on the side of the road, so he took the risk.


    In order to disguise thoroughly, he asked the three of Macon to hold a walking corpse and smear the rotting blood mud on their bodies all over his black armor, including his face. However, considering the toxicity of these plasma, Du Di''an did not apply it directly on his face, but held it on a cloth, and then covered his face with a cloth. Although it will penetrate some of the face, the most important thing is to save his life. .


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    Moreover, in order to attract the attention of the monsters and reduce their weight, the four of them threw their backpacks on the first floor. The backpacks smelled of their sweat, and it was too dangerous to keep them by their side.


    It was originally a last attempt in despair, but unexpectedly it succeeded.


    Several people escaped from death without celebrating, but the three of Macon suddenly shook their heads when they heard Du Dian''s bold words.


    "It was luck before, we will catch up again, if something happens, we will find death by ourselves." Sham also persuaded.


    Du Dian glanced at the three of them and said, "If you don''t want to, just wait for me here, or go to the big army. The hunter must be killed, otherwise there will be no peace after returning."


    This monster confirmed his guess and made Du Di''an more deeply aware of the cruelty of hunters. He didn''t think that such a cold-blooded and cruel person would easily let them, those who disrupted his plan, fall on the other side. In the hands, it is estimated that death is light, maybe he will be tortured to death!


    Instead of pinning your hopes on the compassion of the other party, it is better to cut off the hidden danger yourself!


    The three of Macon were a little stunned. Seeing that Du Dian was about to catch up, Macon said, "I''ll go with you. The four of us share life and death. If we want to die, we will die together!" .


    Du Dian took a deep look at him and nodded slightly.


    At this time, when Zach and Sham heard Macon''s words, they also stood up and were willing to follow Du Dian.


    Although they have been together for three years and have helped each other many times, they are still willing to follow when they see such a dangerous moment. Du Di''an is still full of warmth, nodding forcefully, and saying, "Go!" Take the lead out of the door, just about to leave towards the monster. chase in the direction.


    in vain--


    "You little beasts, are you still alive?" A cold and gloomy voice sounded above the heads of several people.


    Du Di''an''s pupils shrank, looked up, and saw the figure of the hunter appearing at the broken window on the second floor. He... did not leave? !


    Byrne was more surprised than Du Di''an. He didn''t expect that they could escape the perception of the "Fear Dye". However, when he saw the bloody serum on Du Di''an''s body, he suddenly understood, and his eyes turned cold. : "Little bastard, there are quite a lot of ghost ideas. Since I bumped into it, it means that God will take your little lives, so let me die!"


    Raise the bow and arrow, and instantly draw the bow.


    Du Di''an''s face changed, and he hurriedly turned over and got into the building.


    Swish two arrows in a row, the sharp arrows shot at the position where he stood before.


    "Run, run separately!" Du Dian shouted after he got into the building.


    The three of Macon were a little stunned. They were about to chase each other, but the other party appeared in front of them. When they heard Du Dian''s words, the three men woke up like a dream and hurried to the second floor.


    Du Dian saw that they were running in the same direction, and hurriedly said: "Run separately, otherwise he will catch up with him. He is only chasing me now!" Since both arrows were shot at him before, he knew that the hunter hated him. The most intense.


    The three of Macon changed color and said, "There is still hope together, we fought with him!"


    "Listen to me!!" Du Dian yelled.


    The three couldn''t help but startled, gritted their teeth, separated from each other, and ran in three different directions.


    Du Di''an looked back at the hunter who jumped from the second floor and chased after him. His face was ugly, and he hurriedly turned over and ran. He knew that if he was caught up by the other party, he would definitely die. , let alone these scavengers?


    "Cunning little bastard, it''s you who sabotaged my plan!" Byrne had already seen that the actions of the four were all under the arrangement of the boy in front of him. If other scavengers, even adults, would he let them stand , the other party will definitely stand there, and dare not move! When he thought that the other party was the culprit who destroyed his hunt for "Fear of Dye", the hatred for Du Dian in his heart made him subconsciously clench his fist tightly, as if he thought the air was Du Dian''s head and smashed it!


    "Still run, I''ll peel your skin!!" Byrne was full of anger and quickly caught up along the stairs. He had already left here. Considering that the bloody smell of Du Di''an''s four deaths will linger here for a while, can Mixed with his scent, he made a detour and returned, but he didn''t expect that the four people who made him hate it so much were still alive and well.


    He wants to make the other party suffer!


    Whoosh!


    Soon, he caught up to the second floor, heard footsteps not far above his head, should be on the fourth floor, he quickly caught up with a sneer.


    After a while, he came to the fourth floor, and the hurried footsteps disappeared at this moment, he sneered and said: "Hide the cat, hide slowly, I will let you taste the taste of despair, let you listen to it. What does it feel like the sound of death''s footsteps approaching step by step..." In vain, he raised his hand and pulled the bow, and shot an arrow at the window covered with vines, the glass shattered in response, and there was a muffled sound inside.

 Chapter 63: The Immortal Hunter

    Byrne frowned, quietly approached, and slowly pushed open the office covered with vegetation. The door was unlocked and made a slight creaking sound. Byrne looked sideways and saw that his arrow had landed on a wooden table in the room and was nailed to it.


    He frowned slightly, and at this moment, in vain, he heard a subtle and subtle movement from the other opposing office behind him.


    There was a flash of light in his eyes, and he suddenly turned back to shoot the arrow. The speed of the arrow was completed in 0.2 seconds. The arrow flew out of the air and shot through the window of the office. There was a suppressed sound. humming in a low voice.


    "Little bastard!" Byrne sneered slightly, put away the bow and arrow, pulled out the dagger at the leggings with his backhand, walked to the office step by step, kicked open the half-closed door, and with a bang, the door fell off and fell down. , everything in the murky room was in his sight, and he immediately saw one of the desks, Du Dian was lying there, the bow and arrow seemed to penetrate through his ribs on the other side, nailing him to the table .


    With bloodthirsty eyes in Byrne''s eyes, he is very confident in his bow and arrow, even hard stones can be shot through, not to mention the weak and soft armor of scavengers.


    "Little bastard, struggle, are you desperate?" Byrne licked his lips and approached step by step.


    Du Di''an was sweating profusely, looked at him in horror, and said, "Don''t, don''t come here."


    "Shout, keep screaming." Byrne''s eyes flashed coldly, "The kid who ruined my good deeds, the little beast with no value at all, I''ll skin you and eviscerate you!"


    As he approached, the fear on Du Di''an''s face became stronger and stronger. However, when Byrne approached a desk four or five meters away, the panic on Du Di''an''s face disappeared in vain, as if he had changed He opened his face, revealing fierce and determined killing intent, his lying body suddenly straightened up, and the arm that had been hidden under his chest suddenly threw a black shadow, it was his short sword!


    Such a sudden attack made Byrne stunned for a moment, but he is a hunter after all, and he has experienced hundreds of battles on the edge of life and death, so he instinctively raised the dagger in his hand, and with a ding, he blocked the straight shot of the dagger. open.


    At this time, Byrne realized that his bow and arrow did not hit Du Dian, but was nailed to the wooden table. Previously, Du Dian deliberately clamped the arrow under his arm, and the dislocation effect caused him to mistakenly think that he had shot.


    "Little bastard!!" Byrne was completely angry, not only angered by Du Dian''s attack, but also angry that he fell into the trap of a scavenger, he said savagely: "I will unscrew your head and squeeze your eyeballs out. , Damn little bastard!!" The body rushed out from the roar, as fast as a leopard, the distance of four or five meters before, approached in the blink of an eye.


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    However, Du Dian did not panic. When he threw the dagger, he picked up the keyboard on the table, the LCD screen, as well as water glasses, photo frames and withered flower pots, and smashed them at Byrne.


    Although these things do not cause any harm, they can stop the opponent.


    Byrne knew his intentions, and had the shame of being calculated before, how could Du Di''an be happy, raise his hand and knock over the object thrown at his face, as for the other water glasses and flowerpots, he didn''t even look at it, he let it go. When they hit him, with the hardness of his soft armor, there would be no damage even if he was hit by a stone. While ignoring these things, he quickly chased after Du Di''an.


    At this moment, Du Di''an threw out a ball of cloth in vain


    This cloth was on the table before, and now it was thrown along with the other things, as if it was something caught in a panic.


    At the moment of throwing, Du Dian couldn''t help looking back.


    With a bang, Byrne shot in vain and kicked the ball of cloth with one kick, he sneered: "Little devil, do you think I will suffer twice, other things are covered with dust and moss seeds, you There are obvious signs of being flipped on the fabric, is there something hidden inside?"


    Du Dian''s pupils shrank, and he still underestimated the horror of hunters. Powerful physique is only one of their means. What is really scary is the rich combat experience. Perhaps when hunting monsters, many methods of creating traps have long been used by them. Done!


    "I underestimated you." Du Dian gasped slightly and stared at him coldly.


    Byrne sneered, "The hunter is not something you can kill with some ghost idea. Since the other three little beasts escaped, you should bear my wrath instead of them!"


    Du Dian also sneered and said, "You underestimate me too, idiot!" After that, he squatted down suddenly.


    Byrne was stunned, but in vain, he caught a glimpse of a metal machine under a table next to him, and there seemed to be a faint glow of fire. The next moment, the fire instantly swelled and devoured him!


    boom! ! !


    There was a loud noise, as if the whole room was shaking, and the hole lamps on the ceiling were knocked off.


    Although Du Di''an hid in time and leaned behind a desk, at the moment of the explosion, he still felt like his whole body was flying, and then slammed into a bumpy hard object. He hit the ground deeply, and the severe pain instantly spread from his arms, ribs, flanks, etc. to his whole body. He clenched his teeth tightly, feeling a buzzing sound in his ears, and his head was dizzy.


    He opened his eyes diligently, but the office under the turbid light in his sight appeared layers of double images, and kept spinning and shaking. He clenched his teeth tightly, raised his hand, and slapped his face.


    After hitting two or three times in a row, he felt his sight gradually recover, he hurriedly struggled to sit up, and looked up at the place where the explosion had exploded, where he was lying on his stomach!


    The movement made earlier was not just to lead the hunter in, but to hide the ignited explosives in the host computer under the desk. The cloth ignited by the scythe burns the rough paper outside the black powder tube. The pulp of the rough paper is simply filtered. There are many sawdust and debris, and the burning speed is extremely slow. In the shape of a strip, it also burns very slowly. He deliberately lies there. In addition to disguising the arrow, his real purpose is to cover the gunpowder below!


    After all, this tube of black powder has a lot of weight, and although it has great lethality, it is very difficult to blow up such a vigilant existence as a hunter, so it has to take risks.


    If the cloth burns faster than he expected, he will be the first to die.


    If it is extinguished during the burning, he will be killed by the opponent!


    This is a dead end in a desperate situation, he can only fight, he can only gamble!


    Du Di''an felt exhausted, leaned against the wall and breathed heavily. At the same time, he grabbed the cloth bag that was kicked to the wall by the opponent, and untied the knot. Inside were a dozen dark blue balls rolled up by the cloth. A smile appeared on his face, but the next moment, his whole body froze.


    I saw the explosion in front of him, the hunter''s body struggled and stood up slowly, blood was pouring out of his body, his right arm near the bomb was blown off, but he still stood up tenaciously, his hands tight. Holding the dagger tightly, he looked at him with a frantic look on his face.


    It didn''t even blow up? !

 Chapter 64: Meeting the Beast Again

    After a short rest, Du Dian felt that his physical strength had recovered a little, and he returned to the office lightly, grabbed the dark blue ball and left here.


    When returning to the second floor, Du Dian suddenly thought that if other scavengers found it, most of them would report it, attracting the investigation of other hunters of the consortium, and immediately looked cold, picked up the short sword to find the office, and saw the hunter. Still lying on it, the blood that came out was about to dry and hard.


    He took out the scythe on his body, flipped through the office, and soon found a large pile of scattered white papers, and immediately threw the white papers on the hunter, just as he squatted down and threw the white papers on the When the other party was on his back, an accident happened suddenly. The hunter who should have died a long time ago suddenly turned over and stabbed the dagger in his hand towards Du Di''an''s chest.


    All this was completely beyond Du Di''an''s expectations. He couldn''t help stunned. He only felt that the dagger easily pierced his soft armor and penetrated into his chest. The first feeling was cold, and then he felt severe pain from his chest. .


    He opened his eyes wide and looked at the hunter in disbelief. The other party was actually pretending to be dead? Just to fight back when he gets close?


    You know, he rested for a while, but during this time, the other party was able to hold back and pretend to be dead! As if he was bound to approach, what kind of belief and endurance is this? !


    "Beast... raw!" Byrne raised his head slowly, his face was pale due to excessive blood loss, but his eyes revealed incomparably crazy hatred, and he smiled softly as if he was self-deprecating, As soon as it hung down, the palm holding the dagger also loosened and fell weakly.


    This time, he really died.


    But... the dagger was inserted into Du Di''an''s chest.


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    Du Di''an covered the vicinity of the dagger, almost trembling in pain, standing unsteadily, his body fell down, looking down at his chest with difficulty, only to feel that every movement of his body affected the muscles in his chest, and there was a tearing drama. pain.


    "I can''t die, I can''t die..." Du Di''an kept repeating this idea in his mind, only to feel that his consciousness gradually blurred, and his body and limbs seemed to be a little cold. The voices and smiles of the parents, as well as the last glimpse of the freezer before it was closed, it seems that I can still hear my mother and sister saying...


    to live well...


    to live well...


    Live!


    He bit the tip of his tongue sharply, and his previously drowsy consciousness suddenly recovered a bit. Looking down, he found that the dagger did not pierce the heart. If it pierced, he would die on the spot. The head is straight, so the thorn is to the right of the center.


    Seeing this, Du Di''s heart suddenly burst out with a strong sense of survival, gritted his teeth and got up, took out the dark blue ball in his backpack, and stuck it to his chest through layers of fabric. While it absorbs heat, it can also Hemostasis and pain relief for wounds.


    Du Di''an slowly got up, came to the other side of the hunter, opened the first aid kit he was hanging around his waist, and took out a roll of unused white gauze from it, as well as some bottles and jars, some were pills, some were powder.


    Du Di''an found the alcohol in it, trembled and lit the flame with a scythe, piled the previously prepared paper on the hunter and burned it, while taking off the upper body of the soft armor, licking the body, although the radiation in the air was high, But it''s not a big deal for a while, and it doesn''t matter that much.


    He put the alcohol in his mouth, lowered his head and spit it on the wound on his chest, then gritted his teeth and pulled the dagger out bit by bit. He wanted to stop, but he still endured the severe pain and slowly pulled out the dagger. Blood spurted out immediately, and the feeling of collapse made him almost faint.


    He gritted his teeth, wrapped the gauze around his chest, and restrained it tightly. At this moment, he couldn''t find the needle and thread, and it was impossible to sew the wound. The most important thing was to stop the bleeding temporarily.


    Soon, the white gauze in front of the wound was dyed red. Du Dian could only roll it layer by layer, tighten his body, put on soft armor, and put the dark blue ball on his chest, hoping that its cold air would make the wound as soon as possible. Stop bleeding.


    After doing this, Du Dian watched the corpse of the hunter in front of him burn in the flames, gradually turning into a charred corpse, and a chill rose in his heart.


    He rested against the wall while studying the bottles and jars in the first aid kit. What made him bitter was that there were no labels on these medicines. Yes, the medicine is extremely powerful. If you use it wrongly, you will only make yourself more dangerous.


    Time passed slowly, and Du Di''an was relieved that the blood stains on the gauze on his chest had stopped spreading, and the blood had stopped temporarily, but he could not exercise vigorously, otherwise the wound would open immediately.


    However, God did not care for him again. When Du Dian quietly looked into the distance from the window covered with vegetation, he heard a soft trembling sound coming from the ground in vain. There was a low roar, the voice was extremely familiar, it was the black giant beast from before!


    Du Dian, who was sitting on the ground to rest and recover, suddenly changed his face.

 Chapter 65: Chase Game

    The already fluffy and rotten floor was easily pierced by sharp arrows.


    At this time, there was a sound of collapse in the corridor. It was the sound of the stairs collapsing. Du Di''an''s face was ugly, knowing that the monster had chased after him, but during this time, it seemed to stay on the second floor for a while. The hunter''s corpse caught its attention.


    With a bang, Du Dian felt that the floor under his feet was shaking slightly, as if the ground on the sixth floor was broken. Obviously, with the monster''s five-meter-high volume, it couldn''t be squeezed up from the stairs, so he chose to hit the floor directly!


    Du Dian felt that the ceiling above his head was falling off one after another. The tremor caused by this monster was fatal to the already crumbling building. He hurriedly clenched the rope and stared at the front.


    With a bang, in vain, on the ground less than two meters in front of his feet, a pitch-black giant claw burst out of the ground, waving the tip of the claw, almost stabbing Du Di''an.


    Du Di''an was startled, and when the giant claws stabbed out, the floor was smashed five meters in front, and a huge head was stretched out, with sharp fangs and dark red eyes bigger than fists staring at him. , roaring towards him.


    Du Dian hurriedly jumped out of the back window.


    The body fell rapidly.


    Du Dian clung to the rope, which was his only life-saving straw.


    Looking up, I saw that the monster climbed to the seventh floor, its huge body squeezed into the narrow space on the seventh floor, looked down at him, and jumped towards him with a roar in vain.


    Du Dian was so frightened that he hurriedly grabbed the platform under the glass window in front of him. However, at this moment he had fallen to the third floor, which was equivalent to falling to the height of the fourth floor. Without any unloading force and buffer, the arm grabbed directly like this, Immediately, he felt as if his body and arm were torn apart, and the severe pain and heavy falling force made his fingers unable to grasp tightly and immediately slid down.


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    Du Di''an was almost in tears in pain, but the panic in his heart made him hurriedly reach out and grab it again.


    There was a buffer on the third floor before, but this time it hit the window on the second floor and stabilized his body immediately.


    Du Di''an didn''t dare to lift his head, hurriedly smashed his head into the glass, and quickly climbed in.


    Almost as soon as he climbed in, a strong wind blew from behind, and at the same time, the sound of crackling sounded, Du Dian hurriedly looked back, but was horrified to see that at the window he had grabbed earlier, a wall fell off. Looking down at the huge gap, I saw the black giant beast smashed on the ground floor, with several half-meter-high stones and finely broken glass slag pressing on it.


    Du Di''an breathed a sigh of relief, but fortunately the wall was not strong enough to withstand its weight.


    At this time, there was a ferocious low roar from downstairs again, and Du Di''an was startled, only to see that the black behemoth climbed up again, fell from the seventh floor, and failed to let it fall to death!


    Du Di''an''s face was pale, half scared, and half caused by excessive blood loss. He just wanted to turn his head and run, when he suddenly thought that the stairs collapsed in the previous tremor. At this moment, he saw that the monster had climbed up, and seemed to be accumulating strength to try to escape. He jumped over in his breath, time seemed like a deadly clock, he suddenly grabbed the rope outside and kept climbing up the rope.


    While he was climbing, the monster suddenly charged up and jumped up, its sharp claws caught deep into the wall beside the building, and roared angrily at Du Di''an above.


    Du Di''an looked down, and immediately saw the bloody mouth that opened under him, and the pointed tongue. His heart was cold, and he climbed faster and faster. At the same time, the tearing pain caused by the wound on his chest became heavier and heavier, and the blood had long since washed away. The chest is red.


    Soon, Du Di''an climbed to the fourth floor, but the black behemoth jumped again.


    Du Dian was so frightened that he hurriedly got into the window on the fourth floor, rolled in, and regardless of the severe pain on his body, he clutched his chest and hurried to the other side of the fourth floor.


    At the same time he drilled in, the giant beast jumped out of the wall on the fourth floor, its claws were deeply embedded in the wall, and did not fall, and the rope that Du Di''an had climbed earlier was swept by its giant claws, Immediately embedded in the claw seam.


    Looking at the direction where Du Dian ran, it roared and climbed up, and drilled into the fourth floor.


    However, there was a six- or seven-meter-wide hole in the middle of the room, and only the edge of the room could barely walk. Its size could only crawl low, and there was no way to catch up.


    However, the strong bloodthirsty obviously won''t make it give up its prey like this, roaring and jumping out of the hole, claws deeply into the corridor outside the office opposite the hole, the corridor can''t bear its weight, and suddenly collapsed. , and collapsed with its body.


    Hearing the huge movement behind, Du Dian didn''t dare to stop, ran to the other side, and continued to climb up.


    The only hope at the moment lies in the cover of this building. With the size of this monster, it is extremely difficult to catch up with him in the building, especially a decayed and unbearable building.

 Chapter 66: The Elevator Shaft

    Then in the next moment, the ears were enveloped by a huge roar.


    Countless dust mists rolled up, and Du Di''an''s body, which jumped high, obeyed the gravity of the earth, and also fell heavily, rolling out of the floor that collapsed on the ground. Rolling all the way, he seemed to have hit countless hard stones along the way. The violent collision made him feel like his body was falling apart, his head slammed on a heavy object, and he suddenly lost consciousness.


    I don''t know how long it took, Du Di''an felt a little difficult to breathe, and his consciousness struggled to wake up.


    In the first act of opening my eyes, it is darkness.


    He was startled.


    I''m not dead?


    The next moment, the severe pain from the whole body made him fully awake, and he couldn''t help but take a slight breath of cold air from the pain, only to feel his back pressed against a hard object, stretched out his hand to support the ground, moved his body a little, affecting the whole body. The wound was instantly painful.


    Du Di''an''s mouth twitched, he didn''t dare to move his body, he looked up and looked around, there was a faint and turbid light coming from above his head, he looked up, and he seemed to be able to see the gray sky.


    He breathed a sigh of relief, and when his strength recovered a little, he could climb out.


    Suddenly, he felt a burning hunger in his stomach, and suddenly thought that his backpack was lost in the previous chase, he sighed secretly in his heart, and at the same time was full of hatred for the hunter. However, filling his stomach is the key now. When he came to the outside of the giant wall, he had not eaten anything. He had been running for his life all day last night. Later, he passed out, and he did not know how long he had been in a coma, but he remembered that it was dusk, and now he can Seeing the light means that it is daytime, and the ideal situation is to be in a coma for only one night.


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    Du Di''an groped lightly around the palm of his hand, trying to touch some clothes or other things. At this moment, he was so hungry that he could swallow the weeds even if it was a belt.


    After touching for a while, he found some metal and broken metal pipes. He seemed to be sitting on a metal block. He smiled bitterly. He only hoped that the collapse of the building would attract Macon or Scott. However, It''s a question of whether they''re alive or not.


    Thinking of this, he suddenly thought, what if such a violent sound attracts walking corpses?


    He immediately dismissed the idea of calling for help. Don''t wait for rescue, but instead attract a group of walking corpses, that is completely over.


    At this time, he suddenly felt that some sticky liquid was flowing down him, and he couldn''t help but be stunned. The water source in the building should have been exhausted long ago.


    There was a bit of hunger and thirst in his heart. Even if it was radiation rain, he wanted to drink a little at this moment. As long as it could relieve the hunger and burning sensation in his stomach, he felt that he would even take a bite of the corpse of a walking corpse!


    He moved his arms slightly, trying not to exert any strength, so as not to affect the wounds all over his body. He slowly picked up a little bit and put it in his mouth. Just as he was about to drink it, he suddenly smelled a strong bloody smell.


    is blood?


    Du Dian was stunned for a moment, and at this moment, there was a slight movement in the darkness ahead.


    Du Di''an''s pupils shrank, could it be...


    Roar!


    As if to confirm his conjecture, a roar suddenly came from the darkness, a few stones were smashed and flew over, a strong smell of blood came, and a hideous roar came from four or five meters ahead.


    Black behemoth!


    Du Di''an only felt that his heartbeat was about to stop, but it didn''t die?


    He gritted his teeth, rested his palms on the ground, and moved his body. Every time he moved a little, his whole body felt a severe tearing pain. He was sweating wildly on his forehead, but he still clenched his teeth tightly and moved back inch by inch.


    After moving seven or eight times in a row, he moved a distance of two or three meters, and he was so tired that he almost collapsed.


    At this time, he suddenly noticed the roaring sound in the darkness ahead. Although it was still roaring continuously, it did not approach. It seemed that...it was stuck in that position.


    Du Dian was stunned, a little puzzled, and suddenly thought of a possibility...it was stuck?


    Thinking of this, he immediately touched the scythe that he was carrying with him behind his pocket. This thing was not lost. His palm was weak, but he still shivered and struck the scythe, rubbed the flame, and ignited the tinder.


    Soon, the faint flames dispelled the darkness nearby.


    Du Dian raised the fire to shine, and saw the picture in front of him. He saw the black giant beast lying in a narrow passage in front of him, with some stones scattered around his neck, and kept roaring in a low voice, but failed to reach him. The front crawled, and the body was stuck by the stones piled up behind!


    He breathed a sigh of relief, and then he thought about it, fortunately it was stuck, otherwise he would not have waited for himself to wake up and would have been eaten in a coma.


    At this time, the tinder was burnt out, and darkness returned to the surroundings.


    But Du Di was relieved a little in peace. He had seen the surrounding environment clearly. He and the black giant were in a steel box, like a container. However, there was no container in the building. One place is where he is, in the elevator shaft!

 Chapter 67: Kill

    . "Du Di''an looked in the direction of the black behemoth. Obviously its location is the lower floor of the building. In order to save physical strength, it can only leave from its direction.


    However, with it blocked in the elevator shaft, Du Di''an could only pull out the hole above.


    Although there was an open elevator door not far from him, the elevator door was facing down, and it fell straight down as soon as he got out.


    Making up his mind, Du Dian gritted his teeth and supported his body, crawling towards the broken pile of stones. The wounds all over his body were achingly involved in the process of crawling, and many wounds burst open.


    He sucked in the cool air lightly, did not stop, still insisted on climbing, he knew that if he continued to stay here, the spirit he raised by talking would eventually slump, and he would have to wait for death.


    Soon, he stepped on the rocks and climbed out of the elevator shaft.


    The murky light fell outside the elevator shaft, dust fluttered in the air, and walls and windows were all broken and riddled with holes.


    Du Di''an looked in the direction of the black behemoth, and suddenly saw a lot of concrete stones piled up there, and there were twisted steel bars beside the stones, he was relieved, with these stones pressing, the black behemoth momentarily Couldn''t get out for a while.


    He dragged his body and walked towards the pile of stones. The places on both sides of the elevator shaft were suspended in the air. Once he stepped in the air, he would fall. He had to be glad that he rolled down in a good position. , will fall to death!


    Half an hour later, Du Dian finally climbed out of the rubble at the bottom of the building and came to the ground. Looking back at the collapsed building, he still felt lingering fears.


    He hid behind the stones, looked around first, and did not see the whereabouts of the walking corpses, and he was relieved, thinking that these walking corpses should be attracted by the sound of the collapse, but he did not sense himself, so gradually he gradually Go away.


    Previously, on the inside of the soft armor on his chest, there was a dark blue ball wrapped in layers to help him relieve the pain of the dagger on his chest, which caused his body temperature to be extremely low during the period of drowsiness, so he avoided the induction of those walking corpses.


    But at this moment, the dark blue ball had already been taken out by him and was thrown into his pocket.


    Sweeping the movement on the street, Du Di''an quietly touched a nearby shop. The outside of the shop was covered with vegetation and moss. Du Di''an''s eyes fell on these vegetation, and he chopped it off with a dagger attached to his waist. The vegetation was immediately cut off. He looked at the juice flowing out of it. It was transparent water, and it loosened. After taking a sigh of relief, I suddenly felt hungry in my stomach, and quickly grabbed a few leaves of vegetation and chewed it gently with my mouth.


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    The dry leaves were filled with sweetness in his mouth. Du Di''an couldn''t help chewing, and quickly ate a few rough leaves, ignoring that the leaves might be contaminated with germs or the radiation content was too high.


    After eating the leaves, Du Dian felt that the burning sensation in his stomach suddenly subsided, and his body seemed to have a little strength. He did not continue to eat the leaves, but cut off the stems of the vegetation, squeezed out the water inside, and sucked. drink.


    The fact that vegetation can thrive in such places shows that it already has the properties of anti-radiation and anti-virus.


    After drinking some, Du Dian felt a little more comfortable, and suddenly thought of the black behemoth stuck in the building, a coldness flashed in his eyes, the culprit who forced himself to this field, he didn''t plan to let him go like this, As long as it is not dead, there is the possibility of breaking free, and once it breaks free, it is an unstable danger to him.


    After thinking for a moment, Du Dian came to the scrapped car covered with moss on the street. The front cover of the car was thrown up, and the engine was already rusted and eroded by the rotting moss. He didn''t use much effort to disassemble the car''s oil tank, only to see that the gasoline in the oil tank had been oxidized and dried up, sticking to the oil tank. Inside.


    He had expected it, and he gently scraped with the dagger, and soon scraped out a layer of dark substance.


    He took out the scythe and lit it on fire, burned it with this dark substance, and it ignited at once.


    Du Di''an was a little surprised, and immediately found other scrapped cars, took out the oil cylinders inside and scraped them one by one, and when half of the cars on the street were scraped, they had accumulated into a black group the size of a basketball.


    Du Di''an found some fabrics from other shops and small supermarkets. The fibers of these fabrics were already fluffy, and they were broken with a little force. How long will it take to return to the previous elevator shaft.


    He was exhausted from the tossing all the way. He sat in the elevator shaft to rest for a while before he gasped and lit the torch. This time, he could see more clearly, the black behemoth was stuck in the pile of stones from its upper limbs, only the neck The parts above the neck are movable, and half of the front paws are exposed.


    Du Di''an sneered, stirred up the dark oil substance, rolled it on the combustible cloth and wood, and threw it at it.


    These things fell on the face of the black behemoth, which woke it up immediately. It opened its eyes, roared at Du Di''an, and grinned.


    Du Dian smiled slightly and threw out the torch in his hand.


    call!


    The torch fell on it, immediately igniting the fabric above it, and soon, the fire was raging!


    "Roar!!"


    The black behemoth caught fire, and could not help roaring in pain, its head shook violently from side to side, and the rocks on its body were shaken slightly loose, and a lot of rubble fell. However, its body failed to struggle, and even let the stone The heap shaking didn''t do it.


    Seeing this, Du Di''an was completely relieved. At first, he was worried that he would go mad due to severe pain. Now it seems that he is far weaker than he expected. After all, when the building collapsed, it happened to be on the ground floor and didn''t know how to avoid it. Having suffered a great deal of damage and shed so much blood, he was already extremely weak.


    The fire illuminated the dark elevator shaft, and the black giant beast struggled and roared in the flames, but gradually the roar faded away and fell into the firelight.


    Du Di watched quietly, and suddenly felt that life is so fragile, even if it is a life as strong as a black behemoth, it can''t escape death in the end, maybe... it''s just that it''s not strong enough?


    Du Di''an clenched his fists slightly, the flames beating in his eyes, just like the ambition and flames in his heart, growing rapidly...


    After the burning lasted for about ten minutes, it gradually extinguished, and there was a hot air and a faint smell of cooked meat. Du Di''an used the scythe to ignite the other torch that was used, only to see that the thick hair outside the black giant beast turned into fuel and burned out, and the body turned into a scorched corpse exuding heat.


    Although he knew that monsters didn''t know how to pretend to be dead, Du Di''an still picked up a stone and threw it away to be on the safe side.


    The stone was hit, and the beast did not respond.


    Only then did Du Di''an breathe a sigh of relief, approached carefully, and looked at the charred corpse up close.


    "It seems that this monster is really different from a walking corpse. It can be killed without cutting off its head." Du Dixin secretly said, after all, this monster shows a beast-like consciousness, and a walking corpse is an unconscious instinct.


    "I just don''t know if their heads are different from walking corpses." Du Dian''s eyes glowed with cold light, and he held the dagger.

 Chapter 68: Infection

    Suddenly, Du Dian suddenly thought of something, looked under his buttocks, and saw a thick layer of blood flowing in the elevator shaft, the blood of a black giant!


    "Could it be the germs contained in this blood? But my soft armor is isolated, and my body has not come into contact with this blood!" How dare Du Di''an continue to sit here and stand up in a hurry, but his legs are all numb and he doesn''t obey, At the same time, the tingling sensation became heavier and heavier, coming from all parts of the body.


    He gritted his teeth tightly and dragged his body to the outside, only to stop when he came to the hole made by the stone.


    The blood of the giant beast didn''t flow here. He leaned on the stone and panted slightly, looked down at himself, and suddenly saw that there was a scratch on the soft armor behind his buttocks, and it flowed under him. Most of the blood infiltrated from the scratches, infecting the body, and unknowingly, like a leech sucking blood, so that he didn''t even notice it, and he didn''t even feel his skin touching the blood!


    Du Dian''s face was pale, and there was a trace of regret in his heart. If he hadn''t come back to kill this monster, he might not have been infected!


    "I didn''t expect to escape the hunter''s pursuit, escape the beast attack, and finally escaped the retribution of heaven..." Du Di''s heart was bitter, thinking of what people often say "have mercy and forgive people", Maybe if he doesn''t come back, this giant beast will starve to death here, but now it ends up being buried with this monster.


    Du Dian leaned on the stone, the sharp stinging pain all over his body had made him tremble, and he was unable to climb up again. He only pinned the last glimmer of hope in his heart, hoping that the germ would not kill him.


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    But it backfired. In addition to the tingling sensation, he felt that his consciousness was becoming more and more blurred. He raised his left hand, which was still slightly conscious, and touched his forehead.


    However, at the moment when he would be unconscious at any time, he suddenly thought that the dark blue ball on his body could absorb heat, and immediately raised his left hand, took out the dark blue ball in his pocket with difficulty, and put it on his forehead.


    A cold feeling immediately came, which made his turbid thinking a little clearer. When he looked up, he felt that his eyelids were extremely heavy, and the dark elevator shaft in front of his vision was even more blurred.


    Suddenly, he felt a slight movement in the soft armor of his chest, as if something was struggling there.


    He couldn''t help but look down, raised his left hand with great difficulty, and slightly peeled off the soft armor. In his blurred vision, he suddenly saw a small earthworm-like blood-red worm arching over the gauze-bound wound on his chest. The first half of his body seemed to have been Drilled into the gauze, the second half is still struggling to wriggle.


    "Insect, worm..." Du Di was at a loss, raised his hand to grab it, but the burning sensation in his brain made him completely unable to lift up any strength, and the eyes he opened with effort slowly closed, and took a final look. What I saw was the bug outside the gauze on my chest. It seemed that it finally broke the barrier and got in.


    With a thud, Du Dian fell to the ground and passed out.


    After he was in a coma, he still held the dark blue ball in his palm.


    However, the cold ball gradually melted in his palm and turned into a light blue transparent liquid, which penetrated into the wound on his palm, as if it were countless living creatures.


    In the dark, I don''t know time in a hurry.


    When Du Dian regained consciousness again, he was awakened by hunger.


    He opened his eyes blankly, but saw the familiar picture of the elevator shaft, he couldn''t help but be stunned, he didn''t die?


    He suddenly thought of the high fever before his coma, and quickly touched his head, but his body temperature was normal. At this time, he noticed that his swollen palm had returned to its original state. Not only did the swelling disappear, but he also regained consciousness.


    He sat up hastily and looked at his whole body.


    There was no change in his body. There were many small scratches on the dusty black soft armor. He subconsciously looked back at the black giant beast, only to see that its charred body was still stuck there, and its head was cut open.


    Du Dian was stunned for a while. Was it a dream that he was infected and had a high fever before?


    Just a dream of sitting here tired and falling asleep after dissecting this monster?


    Suddenly, he opened his eyes wide and looked left and right in a bit of astonishment.

 Chapter 69: Fusion

    It''s so dark that you can actually see it?


    Du Dian patted his face, a little pain let him know that he was not dreaming, he couldn''t help looking up at the hole on the pile of stones, only to see the light was dark, only a little faint light on the pile of stones, but the elevator shaft was still there It was pitch black.


    However, in his vision at the moment, everything on the ground can be seen clearly.


    Du Di''an blinked, and suddenly, he thought of the blood-colored worm he saw before he fell asleep, and suddenly his hair stood up, and he hurriedly lifted the soft armor on his chest to look. I saw that the white gauze was still rolled up, the seeped blood stained the gauze, and the blood had dried up.


    Du Di''an touched the wound lightly, but did not feel any pain, and immediately undid the gauze in circles.


    When the gauze peeled off, Du Di''an suddenly saw the scar on his chest. To his astonishment, this dagger scar, which was supposed to be vertical, was completely healed at this moment, leaving only a shallow white scar. In addition, on the healed scar, there is a dark red bloodstain that stretches across half a finger, like a blood vessel bulging out of the skin, coagulating there.


    Du Di''an''s face changed, and he reached out and touched it gently.


    A slight touch came from the bloodstain, and Du Dian thought of the blood-colored worm that burrowed into the gauze, and his face was ugly, shouldn''t that worm drilled into his body?


    Anyone who thinks of an unknown bug burrowing into their body will be horrified.


    Thinking of his dagger, Du Dian immediately picked it up and scratched it towards the bloodstain on his chest. He suspected that the worm lived in the bloodstain like a blood vessel.


    The dagger gently pierced the bloodstain, and dark red blood flowed from it. At the same time, Du Dian suddenly felt a sharp pain transmitted to the brain nerves, and the whole body couldn''t help trembling, especially the left heart was the most painful, like being dug out. Again, this is real heartache.


    His palms were trembling, and he immediately stopped piercing. He felt that if he continued to pierce, he would die in pain!


    When the dagger was released, the pain suddenly eased a bit, but Du Dian was already sweating, panting and looking down, only to see that the pierced blood was quickly healing with the naked eye, and it didn''t take long, It returned to its original state, with only the blood flowing out of the skin on the chest, proving that he had been stabbed here before.


    As the bloodstain healed, the sharp pain gradually subsided.


    Du Di''an''s face is a little ugly. Could it be that the bug and his body have grown into one body?


    His face changed for a moment, but in the end he didn''t have the courage to continue to try to pierce the bloodstain. He only thought to himself that if he could find a microscope in the ruins outside this wall, or if he built one based on the knowledge in the chip, he would be able to know himself. The change in the chest, but right now, it can only be left like this for the time being.


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    This feeling made him a little uncomfortable, but there was nothing he could do. However, when he thought that he had survived nine deaths this time, it was already a great fortune among misfortunes, and the uncomfortable feeling in his heart softened a bit.


    "My vision, being able to see things clearly in the dark, is mostly caused by previous bacterial infection, and that little blood-colored worm is probably one of the germs, and it is the strongest one, even surpassing the concept of germs. , is a brand new mutant microorganism that can live in the blood of other organisms!"


    Du Dian regained his composure and thought about what happened before he passed out. Obviously, the blood-colored worm crawled onto itself from the blood of the black giant beast. Perhaps before the monster died, it lived in its blood. After it died, it found itself... a New host!


    And this also explains why he was infected with the blood of this monster, but he was not infected by the virus and turned into a walking corpse.


    Because, in the blood of this monster, it is very likely that there are a large number of such tiny blood-colored bugs, which crawled into his body along the blood! These little guys, who originally lived in the blood of monsters, had already produced antibodies to the virus, so when they entered their body, they also strengthened their resistance to the virus, which prevented them from being corpse.


    However, this is just Du Dian''s speculation. Only by finding a microscope for research can we understand what is going on.


    Du Dian looked at his hands and feet, moved a little, and felt nothing different, so he was relieved a little, turned around and climbed along the rock pile. As soon as his feet exerted force, he suddenly felt as light as a swallow and jumped high into the hole outside the rock pile. superior.


    Du Di''an was a little stunned, looked at his hands and feet again, and recalled how swollen it was before, he suddenly thought about it, bent down and grabbed a half-meter-large stone, hugged it with both hands, but gently picked it up.


    Sure enough, Du Di''an secretly threw the stone out and bounced gently on the spot.


    With a swoosh, he jumped to a height of three or four meters!


    And this is still the case where he didn''t use his full strength.


    You must know that the height of three or four meters is not the position of the head, but the height of the soles of the feet. This is already too much physical strength for ordinary humans. Even people who have practiced hard for decades may not be able to reach such an inhuman level. !


    "Sure enough, all the strengths have been improved, and the improvement is not a little bit, including the evolution of vision, and the ability to see things in the dark, but the most powerful change is the sense of smell..." Du Di''an fell gently, he had previously Feeling that the smell in the elevator shaft was unbearable, he closed his eyes immediately after knowing the changes in his body.


    After a while, I felt countless scents drifting into my nostrils.


    In the dark picture with his eyes closed, he seemed to be able to see clusters of things with various scents scattered around him, centered on his body, he could smell the source of the scent directly, and could judge the distance, even if With eyes closed, you can also know the surrounding environment just by capturing the smell!


    Du Di''an opened his eyes and felt a little shocked in his heart. This sense of smell was so terrifying that it was like a hound!


    "The proportion of this sense of smell is not directly proportional to the physical body. There are too many. The previous monster also has a strong sense of smell. Could it be that when this blood-colored worm crawled into my body, it also used some of its abilities. , brought it into me?" Du Dian was stunned for a moment, and couldn''t help but feel excited, this sense of smell is a first-class radar for him, and any monsters with strong smells can be smelled in the distance!


    It can be said that this is a very strong perception and life-saving ability!


    With this level of smell, Du Dian''s confidence in surviving suddenly increased. Now he believes that ordinary walking corpses can kill him head-on. Even if he encounters a monster as terrifying as this black giant, he can perceive it from a distance and avoid it in advance.


    At this time, Du Dian suddenly smelled his sweat from the countless smells, which was scattered from the backpack, and the location was in the rock pile 26 meters away from the bottom in front.


    He was overjoyed, and immediately grabbed the broken wall and jumped to the bottom of the building. This was the original second floor. At this moment, everything in the office was piled at the bottom.


    Du Di''an jumped over. At this moment, his injuries have healed, but his stomach is still very hungry. There are dry food and water in his backpack, as well as the dark blue ball.


    Thinking of the ball, he suddenly thought that he was still holding one in his hand, and couldn''t help but stunned, he woke up and didn''t see it.


    "No?" Du Di''an looked at both hands, and suddenly saw that the palm of his left hand was sticky. Previously, he only cared about the bloodstain on his chest, but didn''t notice this, only to see a layer of light yellow sticky substance in the palm of his hand, exuding a stench.


    He was stunned for a while, and suddenly remembered that before he fell into a coma, he was still holding the dark blue ball in his left hand. Why did the ball disappear?


    Suddenly, he thought of the appearance of the dark blue ball melting in the walking corpse''s head when it met the high temperature when the walking corpse was on fire. He couldn''t help but be stunned. He had a high fever before. Could it be that the temperature was so high that the dark blue ball melted?

 Chapter 70: Shots

    Du Dian thought about it, and it seemed that there was only one explanation. network


    "Could it be that the melted dark blue ball can be absorbed by the body? Is it the blood-colored worm or the dark blue ball that enhanced my physique?" Du Di''an thought a little, maybe after returning to the giant wall, ask the consortium to get it Answer it.


    He jumped to the bottom of the building and moved away the piled stones and other broken debris. With his physical strength at the moment, these heavy stones were easily lifted. Following the smell, he quickly found the stone hidden under the stones. Backpack.


    The dry food in the backpack was crushed, the drinking water bottle was crushed, and the water was drained.


    After Du Dian ate the dry food, the hunger in his abdomen subsided immediately, and his physical strength seemed to recover a little. He followed the smell and found the dark blue balls scattered elsewhere. In addition, not far from this bundle, the hunter''s bow and arrow were also found.


    Du Dian grabbed the black ancient bow, and the heavy ancient bow fell into his hand at the moment, but it was just right. He gently pulled the bowstring, and immediately pulled it out for a month and a half. He couldn''t help feeling overjoyed. This bow and arrow was the weapon of the hunter, and its lethality was no small matter. Although it couldn''t be brought back to the giant wall, it could at least be used secretly outside the wall.


    After packing up, Du Dian draped the bow and arrow with cloth and hung it behind his back, which was inconspicuous. Then he carried his backpack and left the collapsed building.


    "I don''t know where Macon and the others are." Du Di''an came to the street outside and looked at the sun, it was noon. He returned to the place where he was separated from the three of Macon, and immediately smelled their scent on the ground, and immediately followed the scent.


    In this No. 8 area, it is no longer a safe area. There are walking dead, and Macon and the others will be in danger at any time. Du Di is in a hurry and traces the smell all the way. Suddenly, the smell reaches a street and suddenly disappears.


    Du Di''an couldn''t help but stunned for a moment, and then smiled bitterly. Did the three stinky boys use the method they taught them to eliminate the smell?


    At this moment, there was a sudden burst of roars of walking corpses in front of the silent ruins.


    Du Di''an was slightly startled, hurriedly and quietly pursued the past, and soon came to the street where the sound came from. Looking through the corner of a house, he saw seven or eight people gathered in front of a shop. In the streets on both sides of the surrounding area, there were walking corpses approaching, and they rushed towards them.


    "Scott? Zach?" Du Dian saw these people clearly and couldn''t help but startled.


    Among the seven or eight people, they were Scott and Mia, as well as four young scavengers from the consortium. The other two were Zach, who was scattered with him, and another rookie scavenger boy from the same group.


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    At this moment, Zach and the scavenger boy are being protected in the center of the team. Scott and Mia are holding daggers and looking at the walking corpses around them with ugly expressions. With their skills, they can barely single out a walking corpse. , at most two, but there are six or seven walking corpses in front of them, and there seem to be walking corpses in the distance who are attracted by the roar.


    "Back, back!" Scott said in a low voice with an ugly face.


    The group of eight people retreated to the shops behind.


    The walking corpse roared and swayed, and the first walking corpse rushed towards Scott. The hideous face made the four consortium scavengers behind Scott pale, and the palms holding the daggers trembled slightly.


    Scott roared and slashed with his sword.


    With a puff, the short sword slashed at the neck of the walking corpse, but the blade was not sharp enough and got stuck in the cervical vertebrae.


    Scott''s expression changed and he hurriedly kicked away.


    At this time, Mia, who was next to him, just wanted to come to support, and suddenly two other walking corpses rushed from the side. Mia was so frightened that she hurriedly turned around and blocked, restraining one of the walking corpses, while the remaining walking corpse rushed towards the four consortium scavengers behind.


    The four scavengers from the consortium looked very nervous and rushed out in despair. At his throat, blood spurted all over his face.


    The three people in the back were so frightened that their legs were trembling, and they could only keep retreating, even abandoning Scott and Mia who were resisting the walking corpse in front.


    The rookie boy also ran after the three of them in fright. Zach stood there, his face full of anxiety, but he didn''t know what to do.


    At this moment, the walking corpse biting the young man suddenly turned his attention to him.


    "Run!" Scott growled.


    Zach''s face was pale, but he suddenly had the courage he mustered from nowhere, and rushed forward with his short sword. With a sound, the walking corpse stumbled.


    Zach took the opportunity to get up and was about to swing his sword to stab, when suddenly there was a roar behind him, but another walking corpse rushed over.


    Zach''s face was pale, and at this moment, a stone flew in vain, hit the head of the walking corpse, knocked it to the ground, and didn''t move.


    Scott, Mia, and Zach, who were resisting the walking corpse, couldn''t help but look around, and suddenly saw a figure approaching, chasing a walking corpse that was rushing here from behind. He kicked it out and kicked it on its spine, and the walking corpse suddenly crawled forward, rubbing its chest against the ground and galloping two or three meters away.


    Before it could struggle to get up, the figure flew after it, stepped on its back, held a fire axe in its hand, and chopped it on its head.


    With a puff, the walking corpse''s head was immediately chopped off.


    Scott, Mia, and Zach couldn''t help being stunned. The three consortium scavengers and the new boy who had fled to the shop heard the movement and looked back, and couldn''t help but be astonished.


    I saw that it was Du Dian who killed the walking corpse.


    As soon as the head of the walking corpse was cut off, Du Di''an flew to Zach. At the moment when the walking corpse just climbed up, the axe in his hand threw out, slammed it, and chopped it behind its neck. smashed to the ground.


    However, this didn''t hurt the walking corpse''s head, and it continued to struggle to get up.


    Du Dian took advantage of the time to chase after him, grabbed the handle of the axe, and slashed it hard.


    With a bang, the walking corpse''s head fell and the axe handle was broken.


    Du Di''an sighed lightly, but fortunately caught up. He didn''t shoot with the hunter''s bow to avoid exposure. When he saw that Zach and the others were surrounded, he immediately hid the hunter''s bow and arrow under the chassis of a nearby scrapped car, and then rushed over with the fire axe he brought out of the building, but unfortunately the fire axe''s axe The handle was so badly decayed that it broke in two strokes.


    "Yes, it''s you?" Scott was a little horrified. He killed two walking corpses in just two breaths. What kind of method was this?


    "Be careful!" Du Di''an snorted, grabbed the axe and threw it away.


    With a thud, the axe, like a metal brick, smashed into the chest of the walking corpse that threw at Scott, knocking it down, but without causing fatal damage.


    Scott came back to his senses and hurriedly stabbed the dagger, nailing the walking corpse to the ground.


    Du Dian said to Zach: "Go and hide inside." He turned and rushed to Mia next to him, grabbed the short sword of the young scavenger who had been bitten on the ground, and stabbed the walking corpse''s head.


    The previous swift movement of the walking corpse became clearly visible in Du Di''an''s eyes. The dagger pierced from its lower jaw, slammed it hard, and penetrated into the head.


    The walking corpse made two "uh uh" sounds in its throat and fell weakly.


    "Thank you." Mia gasped and said to Du Di''an, with a strange brilliance in her eyes, looking at Du Di''an curiously. Such power is definitely not possessed by a scavenger, but she also knows that the situation is critical at the moment, and there is no time to let she asked.

 Chapter 71: Return

    puff! puff!


    Du Dian cooperated with Scott and Mia, and quickly killed the walking corpses that came one after another.


    Smelling the smell of walking corpses moving in the distance, Du Di''an said: "It is not suitable to stay here for a long time, we have to leave here immediately."


    Knowing that the fight just now would probably lead to other walking corpses, Scott couldn''t take a rest. He picked up the luggage that had been left in front of the shop during the fight, and opened a parchment scroll. He quickly found his current location and put away the map. , said to Du Di''an: "Follow me, the eighth district is no longer safe, we have to return to the ninth district."


    Du Di''an had this intention, nodded slightly, raised his hand and greeted Zach in the shop.


    Zach ran quickly and said in surprise: "I knew you would survive." Speaking of this, he seemed to want to ask something. When he saw Du Dian blinking his eyes, he suddenly woke up, and immediately stopped talking, but his face was full of joy. smiling.


    Seeing that the danger was lifted, the three consortium scavengers and the rookie boy who were hiding in the shop quickly followed Zach out and looked at the bitten young man who was bleeding profusely on the ground, with a complicated and ugly expression.


    Mia noticed their gaze, snorted coldly, and said in disgust, "Coward! When the walking corpse bit his throat earlier, you had a chance to kill it, but ran away in fright. You are not as brave as a child. Shame!" The child she was referring to was naturally Zach who fought back in the end.


    The three looked ashamed, gritted their teeth, and dared not answer.


    The newcomer boy who ran away together lowered his head tremblingly, but secretly looked at Du Dian in front of him from the corner of his eyes, as if he wanted to say something, but did not dare to speak.


    Scott glanced at a few of them, sighed, shook his head slightly, and said to Du Di''an, "Let''s go."


    Du Dian nodded, glanced at the surrounding environment, secretly wrote down this place, and then came back to get the bow and arrow and the dark blue ball package when he found time.


    The crowd followed Scott and crept along the edge of the street.


    Along the way, Du Dian fully felt the benefits of his keen sense of smell. When he smelled the smell of a large group of walking corpses from a distance, he would suggest that Scott take a detour. If he encounters two or three, he will kill them directly.


    After seeing Du Di''an''s extraordinary power, Scott no longer dared to despise Du Di''an''s right to speak because of his age, so he adopted the several detours proposed by Du Di''an one by one. After a long journey, everyone finally came out of the eighth district and returned to the ninth district, which had been scavenged more than ten times.


    After arriving in the ninth district, the tense nerves of Scott and the others finally relaxed, but they did not dare to stay near the boundary line, and continued to move forward and penetrated deep into the ninth district. Only then did they feel completely relieved.


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    Along the way, no one saw a walking corpse, not even a small monster like a bone-eating rat.


    And in the shops on both sides of the dilapidated streets in the ninth district, basically nothing remains - except for the broken stones.


    "Finally out." Scott sighed lightly, stopped walking nervously, and found a clean place to sit and rest at will.


    Mia put her luggage on the gravel aside, looked at Du Dian curiously, and said, "You are a scavenger who just joined the consortium. I heard that you are a seed object, so you have been blessed twice, but only two. How can it have such a strong power, did you pick up any other treasures?"


    Hearing this, Scott and the three consortium scavengers, as well as the new boy, all looked over. They were very curious about this issue, but they were in the eighth district before, and there would be walking corpses around at any time. They were worried about talking. The voice attracted the walking corpse, so he couldn''t hold back.


    There may be another reason, - worried that such a rash inquiry will cause Du Di''an to be unhappy and abandon them in the eighth district.


    Du Di''an was prepared and said: "I don''t know the reason, but I passed out when I ran for my life. When I woke up, I felt that I was much stronger than before." This is half-truth and half-truth, even if the consortium traces it, he There are also arguments.


    Scott and Mia looked at each other, puzzled.


    Suddenly, Mia thought of something, and her face changed slightly: "You, you weren''t bitten by a walking corpse, right?"


    Hearing this, the three consortium scavengers sitting next to Du Di''an were stunned, and immediately got up and stayed seven or eight meters away from Du Di''an.


    Instead, Du Dian was curious and said, "If you are bitten by a walking corpse, won''t it turn into a walking corpse?"


    Scott looked ugly and said: "You are right, but the speed of turning into a walking corpse depends on the injury. If you rub some skin, the infection will slow down a lot... How long has it been since you woke up?"


    "long time."


    "In general, the slowest infection rate is three days." Scott looked at Du Dian and said, "That is to say, if you are infected, in the next two and a half days, you will completely become inactive. If the corpse does not turn into a walking corpse after two and a half days, it means that it is not infected."


    Du Di''an nodded slightly, he was naturally not infected by a walking corpse.


    However, Scott''s remarks still made him feel a little nervous. I wonder if the blood-colored worm is an infection?


    "We have been outside the wall for four days, and we will return to the wall in six days." Scott looked at Du Di''an, hesitated, and said, "It''s better for us to separate for the time being."


    Du Dian glanced at a few of them. Except for Zach''s worried face, the others had more or less fear in their eyes, just like the fear of walking corpses, he couldn''t help but smile and said softly: "Okay, but I want to borrow your map for a while, lest I get separated and I can''t find my way back."


    "Okay." Scott agreed immediately without hesitation.


    Du Dian looked back at Zach, smiled, and said, "I''m going to find Macon and Sham, don''t worry, I''ll be fine, wait for me here."


    Zach''s eyes were red, and he gritted his teeth tightly, saying: "It''s all my fault, we drag you down, I''m sorry Dean, I''m sorry..."


    "What nonsense is said, it''s all brothers." Du Di''an laughed.


    Zach couldn''t help bursting into tears and sobbed softly.


    Scott, Mia and the others were silent.


    Du Dian waved his hand, took the map that Scott carefully handed over, and turned to leave.


    ...


    ...


    After disappearing from the sight of Scott and others, Du Dian immediately ran at full speed, followed the previous route back to the eighth district, and collected the dark blue balls in the brains of the walking corpses killed along the way.


    It didn''t take long for him to return to the location where he stored the bows and arrows. After finding the bows and arrows and the dark blue balls from the bottom of the scrapped car, he immediately searched the surrounding smells for Macon and Sham.


    When you encounter a lone walking corpse along the way, kill it directly.


    Although his fighting technique is still very immature, with the crushing speed and strength, he can completely kill the walking corpse before it can pounce.


    However, if he encounters more than three walking corpses at the same time, Du Dian can only run for his life. After all, he is rushed up in a swarm, no matter how fast he is, he will be caught. Once caught, he will be gradually surrounded.


    This is the horror of corpses, even hunters dare not be approached by corpses.


    Two days later, Du Dian finally found Macon hiding in a ruined building. The reason why he was able to find him was traced from the smell of his excrement. This also taught Du Di''an a little bit. In the future, in the wilderness, you must not defecate anywhere. Even if you can''t bear it, you must bury it with soil and leave as soon as possible without leaving a trace.


    After Du Dian sent Macon back to the ninth district, he just wanted to return to the eighth district to continue looking for Sham, but suddenly he smelled the smell of Sham in the ninth district, which made him stunned.


    Following the scent, Du Di''an found the lonely Sham in the ninth district, leaving him speechless. Unexpectedly, the kid ran back here by himself.


    After seeing that the three of them were all safe and sound, a big stone in Du Di''an''s mouth was finally released. After the three of them were settled, Du Di''an returned to the eighth district and started his hunting walking corpse plan!


    In the blink of an eye, four days passed.


    The ten-day period for everyone to come outside the wall has come.

 Chapter 72: The Pastors Blessing

    Mia looked at Sham and said, "When you said you saw him, it was four days ago? Are you sure?"


    "I''m very sure!" Sham said solemnly, he had already heard about Du Dian from Zach''s mouth, but he never believed that Du Dian would really become a walking corpse.


    Mia gave him a deep look and said, "I hope you didn''t lie, it''s not good for anyone."


    There was a humming sound, but in vain, the giant wall passage beside the crowd slowly opened, and the iron plate on the ground was held up high by the bracket, like a big steel mouth, and a figure walked out of it, it was Pete.


    "Huh?" As soon as Pete came out, he saw Scott and the others outside the giant wall, and couldn''t help but startled, "Why...there are only so many people?"


    Scott breathed a sigh of relief when he saw him, and his face was a little ugly when he heard that, and said, "A lot of walking corpses appeared in the eighth district we went to, and most of them migrated from other areas." He knew that so many corpses It is impossible for the corpse to be ignored by the hunter when cleaning, and even if the hunter ignores it, he cannot say it outright.


    "A walking corpse appeared?" Pete was stunned, suddenly thought of something, and smiled bitterly: "When I heard the boss talking, he said that there was a riot in an area, but I didn''t expect it to be the area near the eighth area. You are really unlucky... "Speaking of this, his eyes swept away, his face changed slightly, and he said, "Where''s Dean?"


    "He... may be infected by a walking corpse and can''t come back." Scott hesitated, but still expressed his thoughts. Although Zach and others said that they had seen Du Dian, he was a little unbelievable.


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    Pete''s face changed, and he sighed: "I''m very optimistic about him, but I didn''t expect... that''s all, you go in first, the guards are waiting for you inside."


    Scott nodded slightly and entered the passage with Mia.


    Three other scavengers and a newcomer boy followed.


    The three of Macon stood still, looking anxiously into the distance.


    Pete knew that the four of them graduated from the same dormitory, and he didn''t rush anything. He just sighed and quietly looked at the vast and barren plain in front of him. Every time he saw this grassland, he would think of countless scavengers. The hunters and hunters are forever buried in the ruins on the opposite side of the grassland when they travel again and again.


    Life is so fragile.


    He sighed slightly, a little sad.


    Suddenly, a surprised voice sounded: "It''s him, it''s Dean!"


    Pete was stunned, squinting, and immediately saw a black ball running from a distance. As he got closer, he could see clearly that the ball was a huge and round burden. Under the burden was Du Di''an.


    Pete was stunned for a moment, and a smile appeared on his face.


    Du Dian saw from a distance the three of Macon and Pate who were waiting for him in front of the passage, and immediately quickened his pace.


    "I knew it, I knew you wouldn''t have an accident!" Macon dropped his backpack, rushed over first, and punched Du Di''an in the chest.


    Du Dian smiled and said, "It''s good to know, let you run and run in the future, don''t procrastinate like a woman."


    "You''re just like a woman. When you first entered the training camp, you were whiter than the girls in the other dormitories." Macon said with a smile.


    Du Dian rolled his eyes, came to Pete, and said, "It''s been a long wait."


    Pete smiled and said: "It''s good to come back, the harvest seems to be very good, go in, the passage will be closed in six minutes."


    Du Dian nodded slightly and entered the passage. Macon, Zach, and Sham also picked up their backpacks and happily followed behind Du Dian.


    Going back to the wall along the dark passage, when they stepped out of the steps, Du Dian suddenly saw Scott and others. In addition to them, there were more than a dozen bright Holy See guards with bright badges.


    "Dian?" Scott and the others were shocked when they saw Du Dian.


    Du Di''an looked at the guards and wondered, "Who are they?"


    Scott came back to his senses, thinking of the words of Macon and others, and suddenly understood that Du Di''an was not infected by the walking corpse, otherwise after six days, even the slightest wound will be infected.


    "This is the guard of the Holy See of Light. They are doing routine inspections. This is the practice every time we come back. The armor and the items we carry must be handed over to them and shipped to the Holy See of Light. The plague and virus purification on these items can only be returned for use," Scott explained.

 Chapter 73: "Washing Day"

    Du Di''an nodded, expressing that he understood that there was no surprise in his heart. The radiation concentration outside the wall was too high, and the items were covered with thick radiation and germs, which naturally needed to be cleaned up. However, what made him a little concerned was that the Holy See of Light was in charge of this work.


    "Your items!" A bright guard in his early twenties shouted to Du Di''an: "Report your name."


    "Name Du Dian, this is my item." Du Dian heard the words and handed over the burden on his back.


    The young guard beckoned to the companion next to him, a bright guard came over, picked up the huge burden on Du Di''an''s back, wore a white mask on his face, and snorted, "Good guy, it''s heavy enough, don''t be full of scrap copper Rotten iron."


    With that said, send the baggage to the escort car behind. A female guard stood on the car, tore a note from her wrist with Du Di''an''s name on it, pasted it on the bag, and then threw it into the escort compartment.


    "Next." The young guard waved.


    Du Dian thought for a while, took out the seven dark blue balls in his pocket, and said, "I saw this too, do I need to send it together?"


    The young guard looked down, couldn''t help stunned, raised his eyes and looked up and down at Du Dian, squinting: "Little guy, where did you pick this up?"


    "In the head of the walking corpse." Du Di''an said truthfully.


    The young guard stared at him and said, "How could you think of rummaging through the heads of walking corpses?"


    "Curious." Du Di''an said.


    The young guard stared at him tightly, but when he saw the latter staring at him without blinking, he was very calm and could not help but nodded slightly, saying, "I have accepted this thing, and it will be recorded on your account. It''s worthless, and your consortium will naturally inform you when you look back." After saying that, he gave Du Di''an a meaningful look and took seven dark blue balls.


    Du Dian read a bit of pity and indifference in his eyes, and he couldn''t help but feel strange, but he knew that it was not appropriate to ask more, so he turned to leave the passage.


    At this time, after the young guard put away the seven dark blue balls, he took inventory of the three Macon''s supplies one after another. When the passage was closed, when Pete came out of the steps, he saw that there were no other scavengers behind him, and immediately waved his hand. , said: "Everyone gets in the car."


    "Dian!" Scott lifted the curtain of a black carriage and waved to Du Dian, "come here."


    When Du Dian saw his invitation, it was inconvenient to refuse, so he stepped into this carriage.


    Mia and another newcomer boy sat in the spacious carriage, while the three consortium scavengers rode in another carriage.


    "We have wronged you before." After the carriage moved, Scott said apologetically.


    Du Di''an shook his head slightly and said, "It''s human nature, don''t blame you."


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    Scott looked at him and saw that he didn''t seem to hold any grudges, so he breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "Speaking of which, you are our savior this time. Please have a good meal, but unfortunately you are too young to take you to those colorful places... Cough, if you have any trouble or don''t understand in the future, just tell me, I will do my best to help you. All out! "At the end, his expression was a little solemn. Although he was laughing in front of him, it was clear that this was what he really wanted to say.


    Du Dian smiled slightly. Previously, he and Mia were surrounded by walking corpses. They could abandon the scavengers of the consortium and leave, but they stayed. This alone made him admire. After all, he is a person who has experienced life and death. He is very aware of how desperate he will be when facing death, and he also understands what kind of evil thoughts people will breed under that kind of despair.


    To be able to suppress these evil thoughts is to truly see your true nature!


    So Du Dian admires.


    "What did you mean by "washing day"? "Du Dian asked curiously.


    Scott patted his head and said with a smile: "Look at me, I forgot to tell you this, fortunately that fellow Pate is not here, otherwise he would have to nag me again. When I planned to enter the eighth district to scavenge waste, I was free at night. Now, I can slowly introduce to you newcomers..." He sighed, shook his head slightly, and said to Du Di''an: ""Washing Day" is a routine after each return, and like those items, our bodies also need to go through Check carefully before you can enter the giant wall living area. "


    "The "washing day" is a total of three days. After anyone is infected, the longest incubation day for the virus in the body is three days. If three days pass and the body does not turn into a walking corpse, it proves that the body does not carry the virus and can return to the living area. . "


    Du Dian came to a realization.


    really.


    Walking corpses and monsters can be prevented by giant walls.


    However, the penetration of the virus is much more terrifying. Once a person bitten by a walking corpse returns to the wall and is not found in time, the disaster will be extremely terrifying. Even if the spread of the virus is not controlled in time, The whole area will be infected!


    Suddenly, Du Di''an thought of the "wall of boundaries" between the commercial area, the residential area, and the slum area. Are the towering city walls and giant gates not just distinguishing the rich and the poor, their original meaning is actually to divide each area. To prevent the virus from penetrating into the wall and infecting all areas at once?


    The more Du Di''an thinks about it, the more likely it is.


    At this time, Scott asked curiously: "Dian, why did your power become so strong, you only got two blessings, but your strength is stronger than me, but I got nineteen blessings man."


    Mia and the new boy who were sitting next to them were also full of curiosity.


    Du Di''an saw that they hadn''t forgotten this question, and he was a little helpless in his heart. Sure enough, people''s curiosity will never fade if they are not satisfied.


    "The air in the wall is still good." Du Di''an said.


    Scott''s mind was full of black lines, "You''re too blunt to change the subject."


    Mia couldn''t help but chuckle.


    Du Dian was a little embarrassed and said, "I really don''t know, I passed out and woke up like this."


    "Okay okay..." Scott could only give up when he couldn''t ask anything.


    It didn''t take long for everyone to come to a certain place on the outer edge of the commercial area. This is the edge of the living area, and there are few people. However, the radiation in the air is much thinner than other outer areas, and the content is almost the same as that of the living area. The reason why it is sparsely populated is because it is a forbidden place!


    Withered vine-like old trees grow on both sides of the street, and several secluded castles stand on several hillsides. The carriages of Du Dian and others stopped in front of one of the ancient castles, and everyone got off one after another.


    The guard in front of the castle saw the carriage from a distance, so he opened the door of the castle, and flew out from the castle a dark red-haired horse nearly three meters high. At first glance, it is a very aggressive warhorse.


    Sitting on the horse''s back was a young man dressed as a bright knight. He lightly tightened the rope, and the strong horse neighed and stopped in front of the crowd. He was not wearing a helmet. Cheeks, handsome and extraordinary, glanced at Du Dian, Scott and others lightly, and said, "Come with me."


    Scott nodded respectfully, and followed Mia first.


    Du Dian and Macon looked at each other and followed.


    Everyone knows that the young man with extraordinary temperament in front of him is the bright knight in the Holy See of Light. This is much nobler than ordinary knights. Only with extremely high quality can he be awarded the title! If it is said that ordinary nobles have knights to follow, which is the basic equipment of nobles, then it is an honor to have bright knights to follow, or to cultivate bright knights in their own family.


    This is a very face-to-face thing among the nobles.


    In addition to the status of glory, the powerful strength of the Bright Knight is also unquestionable. It is the number one pioneer in eliminating the evil alchemist and potionist. Ordinary knights need to dismount and salute when they see the Bright Knight!


    At this time, everyone followed the bright knight into the castle and came to a basement behind the castle.


    "Everyone has a room, bathes and changes clothes, and stays for three days. There is a "Bright Book" in it. It is best to read more. Even if the body is not polluted, it can purify your heart full of impurities." The blue-gray-haired young man said indifferently.


    "Yes, Lord Knight." Scott nodded respectfully, already familiar with the rules here.


    Du Di''an and others were newcomers, and they followed Scott to learn from each other.


    This small room in the basement is made of rough iron pillars, similar to a prison cell. There is a sleeping bed, a wooden toilet, and a small clean table, each with a pale gold book on it. Book with cover, white and silver streaks.

 Chapter 74: The news comes

    "You, come with me." The blue-black-haired youth pointed to Mia in the crowd.


    Mia seemed to know where she was going and nodded respectfully.


    After Mia left with the Knight of Light, the curious Macon asked, "Where is she going, why isn''t she with us?"


    Scott smiled and said, "How come with us? She''s a woman, so of course she has to go to the lady''s room on the other side. There''s no shelter here."


    Hearing this, Macon blushed suddenly, a little embarrassed.


    "Okay, let''s all take a shower and change our clothes. Someone will come over later to check our bodies." Scott said, taking off the black soft armor that was already stained with blood, and throwing it aside at will, naked. He went to the sink next to the toilet and took the clean water inside to wash his body.


    This is the big wash.


    People in this world are very taboo, but when they come back from outside the wall, they have to undergo a big wash.


    The three of Macon followed suit and took off the soft black armor with him, and began to wash their bodies.


    During the ten days of activities outside the wall, they were extremely uncomfortable with sweat sticking to their bodies, and their bodies gave off bursts of stench, and they wanted to wash them for a long time.


    Du Dian''s character is still relatively introverted, which can be seen from his usual few words. He rolled up the sheets and hung a curtain to cover them. Then he took off the soft armor with countless scratches and began to take a shower.


    Every time he takes a bath, Du Di''an can''t help sighing secretly. Dry rubbing without shower gel is really not used.


    "Look, Dean, this guy is doing this again."


    "It''s also covered with a curtain. It''s all men here, so what''s there to cover."


    "It was like this during special training. Sometimes I wonder if Dean is a girl."


    The three of Macon laughed when they saw this.


    Du Dian stretched his head out of the curtain and said viciously: "Macon, if you talk nonsense again, I will tell Bei Weiwei that you secretly painted her portrait! Zach, don''t laugh, you secretly took someone''s money last time. , do you want me to say it! Sham, if you keep making fun of you, I will go and tear down your pub!"


    The three of them covered their mouths when they heard it.


    Scott laughed while watching.


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    At the same time, in a hidden castle in the business district.


    Under the claws of the black crow, a letter was sent through the window of the old castle and fell into a room on the second floor.


    This is a very luxurious and spacious room. The dark red fleece blanket covers most of the floor. The large red paulownia wood desk is older than the owner sitting on it. This is a fat middle-aged man. Leaning against the unbearably creaky chair and swaying, playing with two pure agates in his hands, he caught a glimpse of the letterhead on the table.


    "What news, it was sent directly without going through the procedure." He frowned slightly, but sat up and took apart the letter. The letter paper, which was filtered extremely white and had a faint fragrance, was densely written on it. He looked at it for a while, and his face suddenly changed After a change, "Byrne didn''t come back? How could it be that his mission this time was not to do the finishing work? Why didn''t he come back on time?"


    He stared at the stationery, his face uncertain.


    The consortium has set a time for hunters and scavengers to go out. The consequences of violation are extremely serious. If they don''t come back on time, there is a 70% chance of death. The remaining 30% is likely to be on the verge of dying, trapped, or temporarily encountering a crisis and failing to return in time.


    Byrne''s situation was different, however.


    It is only responsible for finishing work, not hunting in the gray area. The risk factor is extremely low. If you fail to come back on time, the possibility of death is extremely high!


    He held the letter paper and was angry in his heart. Byrne was a hunter he was responsible for. Once he lost it, his status in the consortium would be affected, and the money he earned would also decline a lot.


    "It must be investigated!" He immediately made a decision, his eyes were cold, "If I am disobedient and go to the gray area, I can''t blame others, even if the "madman" finds me, I can''t bear the responsibility! However, if it was killed by hunters from other consortiums in the eighth district, it would be an intelligence problem with our consortium! "


    He immediately picked up the quill, wrote quickly, passed the order, and thoroughly investigated the matter!


    After all, although the Mellon consortium has a great career, losing a hunter is not a trivial matter, and such a strange loss is likely to involve loopholes in intelligence or the consortium''s spies!


    ...


    ...


    In the headquarters of the Mellon consortium and scavengers in the business district.


    Two pieces of information were quickly passed on here.


    The first floor of this headquarters building is responsible for receiving and processing basic information, and the second floor is the administrative floor, which handles important matters for scavengers. At this moment, both pieces of information are sent to a spacious office on the second floor.


    "Information from Hunter''s Headquarters?" On the desk is a middle-aged man in his forties, with a two-stroke beard, a neat suit, and a straight and respectful sitting posture. He was a housekeeper of the Mel family. Loved by the master, and now dispatched here to manage the scavengers, the power and identity are much greater than that of a mere butler, "Is there a hunter who didn''t come back in the eighth district? Strange, isn''t the eighth district finished cleaning? There are only a few details left, how can there be hunters who haven''t come back from there?"


    The middle-aged man stared at the letter paper and frowned, "The above suspects that something happened to the hunter, and sent this letter, is it because we suspect that there is something wrong with our scavengers?"


    After all, he has been running this business for more than ten years, and he immediately figured out the meaning of the above, and his face became a little gloomy. If it is thoroughly found out that there are spies among the scavengers, the staff of the scavenger headquarters will inevitably be criticized and even punished. !


    However, he also felt helpless. After all, no amount of scavengers could make up for the loss of a hunter.


    "Check it out. If you find a spy, you can only recognize it." The middle-aged man sighed, put the letter aside, and opened the second letter. , made him startled for a moment, "Someone turned in "Han Jing"? Hey, the name Du Dian... Isn''t this the seed object in this batch of scavengers? "


    He was stunned for a moment, then laughed, and said, "This little guy is quite clever, and he was able to pick up the leak from the hunter. It is indeed the seed target of the first three achievements in the special training, and it is indeed worth the investment of the consortium. Funding cultivation."


    His previous depressed mood suddenly improved. Originally recruiting Du Di''an was a happy event for their scavenger headquarters, because they had seen Du Di''an''s resume, and the radiation value in the body was extremely low, although it was not a "bright physique", But there is still a glimmer of hope to become hunters, it''s just that they are reluctant to invest money in training, and now it seems that they can try!


    If he really became a hunter, it would also be a feat for him!


    He casually put the letter on the previous letter. If other consortium scavengers picked up the cold crystal and happened to meet a letter from the Hunter''s headquarters, he would probably link the two together, and some conjectures emerged. . But now the object is Du Dian, but he will not associate it.


    Because Du Dian graduated from the scavenger special training and is a seed target, no consortium would be stupid enough to send such a person over to be a spy! Secondly, during the special training for scavengers, all financial groups, including the military, are prohibited from contacting scavengers!


    Therefore, when graduating, each consortium could only try their best to offer benefits and temptations, but could not contact in private, which would break the rules!


    Therefore, the only group that could be spies could only be the scavengers cultivated by their consortium themselves. In contrast, those people were far more likely to have problems than these newly graduated scavengers.

 Chapter 75: The Hunters Demon Mark

    At this moment, Du Dian in the basement of the ancient castle had just finished washing, put on the linen fiber clothes that had been prepared, and sat on the bed chatting with Macon and others.


    It didn''t take long for the door to the basement outside to be pushed open, and a group of people came in. They were four light guards, escorting two doctors in white coats and masks, carrying their respective medical boxes.


    "Everyone is ready to be checked, take off your clothes!" shouted one of the guards.


    Scott, who has many experiences, didn''t even put on his clothes after washing, and sat on the bed naturally. When Du Di''an, Macon and others saw this, they could only take off their clothes one by one helplessly. Fortunately, these two doctors were both men, otherwise they would still feel shy and embarrassed to be naked in front of the opposite sex at such a young age.


    "Look at the side."


    "Well, turn around."


    Two doctors came out of the iron cage and watched one by one.


    Du Di''an and others cooperated with their orders and turned their whole bodies to let them check it again.


    "What kind of injury is this?" the doctor asked, pointing to the scar on the back of Macon''s hand.


    Macon said quickly: "It''s a scratch. It''s been rubbed when moving things. It''s been a long time."


    The doctor nodded slightly, looked at the scar carefully, and recorded it in the notebook in his hand: "The wound has been scarred, and the time of injury is estimated to be more than four hours. There is no redness and swelling at the wound, and it is initially judged that there is no infection."


    After writing, move on to the next one.


    "Hey!" Suddenly, another doctor screamed, staring at the slightly raised blood vessel-like red marks on Du Dian''s chest, stunned, and leaned a few minutes to look in front of Tie Zhu, only to find that it was not his own illusion, he couldn''t help but Surprised: "Magic marks?"


    When the other doctor heard his words, he was stunned for a moment.


    Du Dian heard a move in his heart, magic marks? they know this?


    Scott, who was in the cage next to him, was also stunned, and said, "Magic marks? Dean has magic marks?"


    Du Dian didn''t expect that he also knew this thing, but looking at his appearance, he didn''t seem to recognize the red marks on his chest. Most of them just heard about the "magic marks" from other paths, but never saw it with his own eyes. .


    I saw the two doctors staring at Du Di''an like a ghost, and said, "How is it possible, you, aren''t you a scavenger, how can a demon be born?"


    Du Dian was also puzzled and said, "What is a magic mark?"


    Scott noticed that the direction the doctor was looking at was Du Dian''s chest, and he looked at it immediately, his face full of novelty, and when he heard Du Dian''s question, he immediately said: "Dian, this "magic mark" is the exclusive power of Lord Hunter, and it is also The fundamental reason why hunters are far stronger than our scavengers is that it is said that there are various amazing abilities hidden in the magic marks. Some hunters can see through everything, and some hunters can corrode metals... and these abilities, just From the magic mark! "


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    He looked at Du Dian''s chest with a red scar that looked like a bulge of blood vessels, and said: "I didn''t expect this to look like a magic mark, Dean, I didn''t expect you to have a magic mark, no wonder the power is so strong, it turns out that you are already hunting. It''s over!!"


    Having said that, looking at Du Dian''s eyes full of envy, but not jealous, because he knows that if he wants to give birth to a magic mark, it is related to his own body, and not everyone can give birth to a magic mark.


    Du Dian was a little stunned.


    The place in the chest where the blood-colored worm lives, is the magic mark?


    Is there a hunter for everyone?


    So, isn''t he already a real hunter? !


    The two doctors looked at Du Dian deeply, and one of them said: "Although I don''t know how you, who was rated as a "scavenger", gave birth to the magic marks, but it should be related to your body, we can test for you again once the body? "


    Du Di''an had long been worried about the hidden dangers that the blood-colored worms would bring to the body, and immediately agreed, saying, "Trouble the two of you."


    "No trouble, if the test is as we expected, you will be an adult hunter in the future, so you don''t have to be polite to us." The attitudes of the two doctors became modest, and smiles appeared on their faces.


    Du Dian was stunned for a moment, and immediately realized the gap between hunters and scavengers, and at the same time he was quietly relieved. Since other hunters have demon marks, he is not special, and there should be no hidden dangers.


    The two doctors asked Du Dian to stretch out his arm from the gap between the iron pillars to help him check. One of the doctors pulled out a tiny glass meter from the medical kit, which was the radiometer.


    Du Di''an immediately understood that they wanted to test the radiation in their bodies, and at the same time guessed that most of the magic marks were related to the radiation content in a person''s body. After all, this is also the biggest difference between hunters and scavengers!


    Soon, the doctor extracted the blood of Du Di''an''s finger and measured it with a radiometer.


    Now Du Dian''s vision is completely different from the original, and he suddenly saw the red line at the bottom of the radiometer, slowly squirming, crawling upward for a few minutes, and then sliding down softly. This time, he could see it very clearly. The red line was clearly a hair-like bug!


    Could it be that there is such a worm in every radiometer?


    Du Dian came to a realization, no wonder that this world with backward technology can measure the radiation value of the human body, it turned out to be through this mysterious little bug. Most of these bugs were the same as the "Bright Bug" he had seen in the Hunter''s Castle, and they were all bugs that had a special sensitivity to radiation.


    "This, this is so low!" The two doctors were shocked when they saw the reaction on the radiometer. They glanced at each other and realized that with such a low radiation content, it is no wonder that magic marks were born!


    It''s just that the two of them are strange, how can such a talent be assigned to the scavengers, is it the mistake of the consortium?


    They don''t dare to think too much, after all, this is a matter of the top, and it has nothing to do with them, they just need to do their duty.


    "The test is done, we will submit this." One of the doctors said politely to Du Dian: "You have the physique of a hunter. I believe that the consortium will soon promote you to the hunter, congratulations to you."


    When Du Dian heard their honorific titles, he was a little unaccustomed to it, but thinking that this is a world with distinct classes, there is no need to be pretentious, he immediately accepted it calmly, and nodded: "Thank you two."


    The two doctors smiled politely, and then checked Macon and Scott, as well as the three consortium scavengers and the new boy, recorded the situation, and left the basement under the escort of the four light guards.


    "I didn''t expect, Dean, you became a hunter unknowingly!" After the doctor and the guards left, Scott looked at Du Dian with amazement, and his eyes revealed surprise and a bit of flattery. This is simply a godsend It is a good opportunity to be able to get in touch with the hunters at close range. If he can get shelter or a little help, his life will be much better in the future. Even as long as Du Di''an says a word, the proportion of his scavenging in the consortium will be divided. Can improve a lot!


    This is the influence of the hunter!


    Macon, Zach, and Sham looked at Du Dian in amazement, envy and happy for him.


    "We will have a backer in the future, haha..." Macon laughed sullenly.


    Zach tsk tut: "I didn''t expect Dean to become a hunter without knowing it. I suspect that I am dreaming."


    "Isn''t it, I didn''t react." Sham said with emotion: "I knew Dean''s seed status for a long time. As long as he behaves well, he will have a chance to become a hunter sooner or later. I didn''t expect it to happen now, tsk tsk, Still so young, I don''t know what rewards the consortium will give Dean."


    All three were a little excited.


    Du Di''an looked at them happily, smiled slightly, and reached out to touch the magic mark on his chest. It seems that the hunter was going to ambush the black giant beast, mostly for this blood-colored worm. However, the hunter already has demon marks, why do they still need this? Could it be said that even if there is a magic mark, this can also enhance the power, or enhance the ability brought by the magic mark?


    Speaking of abilities, he thought of his super sense of smell.


    This should be his magic mark ability.


    Du Dian thought of Scott''s previous words and said to him: "Do you know what the hunter''s magic marks are, and what abilities do they generally have? Will this thing pose any threat to me?"


    Scott scratched his head, and said with some embarrassment: "I only know a little bit of fur, but I heard that there are all kinds of abilities. As for whether it will threaten you, I don''t know, but it should be No, all hunters have this, but I have never seen anyone have an accident... Other specifics, when you are promoted to hunters by the consortium, someone should tell you."


    Du Dian thought about it too, and immediately stopped thinking too much.

 Chapter 76: Investigation

    The World Beyond the Wall, Mellon Consortium No. 8.


    The flag of the consortium that looked like a scarlet rose was inserted at the edge of the area, and three figures swept past the flag, and the breeze that drove the flag slightly fluttered.


    The speed of these three figures is extremely fast, like three black cheetahs, swiftly jumping over the broken street, jumping, and extremely flexible. Occasionally, a collapsed building blocks the street, and they lightly step on the rocks. Easily pass over.


    Soon, the three of them saw two figures wandering aimlessly on the street in front of them. Their green eyes were hollow and numb, and the clothes on their bodies were hanging like shards, exposing a lot of lime-grey **.


    "Humph!" The first figure of the three snorted coldly, with a bit of icy tenderness. It was a woman with scarlet soft armor. Her speed did not decrease at all, and she flew by quickly. Before the two walking corpses reacted, has rushed in front of them.


    Then, swipe straight out from between them.


    With two thuds, two heads fell from behind, and fell to the ground like a ball. After rolling it, it stopped moving.


    The two figures that followed behind the woman swept past the walking corpse, and the strong wind drove the two headless corpses down.


    "There are still walking corpses, and there is indeed a change in the eighth district." A young man on the left glanced back, his face changed slightly.


    The young man on the right looked worriedly at the back of the scarlet soft-armored woman in front of him, sighed lowly, and said, "I hope Byrne is just having fun for a while."


    "Don''t be distracted!" The scarlet woman in front of her looked cold and said coldly, "Gree, do you smell my brother?"


    The young man on the left said: "Not yet!" Suddenly, he stopped, looked at a street on the right, and said in surprise: "This smell, is it that monster?"


    The scarlet woman stopped suddenly and looked back at him.


    Gree''s eyes flashed for a moment, and he said, "Come with me, maybe your brother is here." After that, he quickly flew away along the street.


    Soon, the three came to a collapsed building. Gree followed a hole and quickly got into the collapsed building. The scarlet woman and another young man followed closely behind him, and several people came to a passageway in the building.


    Gree jumped out of the hole in the passage, only to hear a slight buzzing sound. He followed the source of the sound and looked into the darkness, raised his hand to light a portable oil wax, and instantly illuminated the dark corridor.


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    The three of them saw the inside clearly through the dim light, and their expressions changed.


    "Sure enough, it is the one who is afraid of dyeing!" Gree took a light breath, a little scared.


    Another young man said in horror: "How can the Dread Dye appear in the eighth district, this is a rare named monster, and it will die here?"


    "It''s still in its infancy, and the hunting level is nine." The scarlet woman glanced carefully, swept the dark passages around her, and said coldly, "I was burned alive, huh, to die so uselessly."


    Gree came back to his senses and suddenly said: "Look, the head of this Dread Dreader has been chopped off. This should be done by a novice. We all know that the Dye Dreader''s brain can''t do anything but brains. Yes! Moreover, those parts on its body have not been removed. It seems that the person who killed it is probably a rookie who has just become a hunter!"


    "Our consortium has no new hunters recently." Another young man said.


    The scarlet woman sneered: "That can only mean that hunters from other consortiums did not understand the rules and entered our area."


    Gree nodded slightly, and suddenly, his nose moved, his face changed slightly, and said, "I seem to smell your brother''s scent."


    "Huh?" The scarlet woman raised her eyebrows.


    Gree''s face became a little ugly, and he said: "It''s just emitting from this fearful person, shouldn''t it?"


    The scarlet woman suddenly changed her face and shouted angrily, "What nonsense!"


    Gree held up the flame and approached the scorched corpse monster, and immediately saw a soft armour fragment the size of a finger in the gap between one of its paws. The smell he smelled came from this fragment.


    "This" Gree picked up the pieces of soft armor, his face was a little ugly, and said: "This is your brother''s."


    The scarlet woman''s complexion changed, and the snow-like face was flushed with blood. The dark pupils contracted slightly, and the color of the pupils changed to a little blood red. She trembled and slowly came to Gree, looking at his hand. The pieces of soft armor on her, she knew that with his scent tracking ability, he would never be mistaken, and she also understood what would happen if her younger brother encountered this Dread Dreader with a hunting level of "nine" !


    "Beast!" The skin around the scarlet woman''s arm slowly sloughed off, revealing two blood-red scimitar-like sharp blades, which slashed towards the neck of the Dread Dreader, with a thud, the rotten muscles of the scorched corpse The fibers were so fluffy that they were easily slashed by the blood blade beside her arm, and the rotting blood spattered on her face, but she didn''t care, and threw her hands up like a madman.


    Plasma splashed, and the bloodthirsty insects and flies surrounding the charred corpse were all scared off by her.


    "Beast, beast" At the same time as her arm tore the scorched corpse, tears flowed out of the dark red eye sockets, sliding down on the skin of the blemishable cheeks, washing the blood that was stained on her face.


    Gree and the other young man looked complicated and didn''t stop her, because they knew it was useless to stop her.


    Soon, the upper body of the charred corpse was slashed to pieces by the blood blade. The scarlet woman had a hideous expression and grabbed into its rotten body with her hands. Soon, its stomach was torn apart, and the extremely thick and rotten The smell flowed out along with the gastric juice and stained the scarlet woman''s arm, but she didn''t care, crawling in the gastric juice, but only picked up some bone residues and metal pieces that had already been digested.


    "Beast, beast," the scarlet woman repeated these two words, her grief making her unable to think of new abusive words.


    The extremely corrosive gastric juice had no effect on the soft armor and blood blade of her arm. Gree couldn''t bear it, he pulled her and said, "Don''t be like this, your brother may have escaped from its claws and is still alive somewhere."


    "Go away!" The scarlet woman said coldly.


    Gree sighed and could only let go of her.


    The scarlet woman gasped slightly, clenched her fists tightly, her beautiful face full of hideous: "I want to find the person who killed this beast, a damn rookie hunter, he will never be able to beat it, it must be me and me. The younger brother was seriously injured after the battle and was picked up by that damned crumb, I want him to die!!"


    Gree nodded and said: "We will help you, and we will definitely find that guy, who dares to violate the area we cleaned, and we will never forgive him!"


    Another young man said: "I think that person should have left some clues nearby. Let''s look for it, maybe there is something unexpected."


    Gree nodded slightly, pointed back at the stone next to the hole where he jumped down, and said, "The bloodstains on it should be left by that person, I remember this smell, let''s look around to see if there are other clue."


    Seeing what he was pointing at, the scarlet woman looked back, her dark red pupils were extremely cold, she came to the stone, raised her hand to touch the dried blood on it, a horrifying scene appeared, from the back of her white and tender hand, suddenly A black blood vessel-like thing broke out from the skin, twisting and crawling onto the stone, as if licking the blood on it.


    Soon, the dried blood from the stone gradually disappeared.


    Gree''s face changed slightly, but she didn''t say much, knowing that this was her magic mark ability.


    "Look around, look carefully!" the scarlet woman said coldly.

 Chapter 77: Letter

    In the basement of the castle.


    After the doctors left, Du Dian and others also rested separately. They didn''t close their eyes well for ten days outside the wall. At this moment, in this place like a cage, everyone was completely relaxed, and soon the snoring began.


    Du Di''an didn''t fall asleep immediately, but gently stroked the magic marks on his chest. The touch was so clear that he couldn''t tell whether it was transmitted from his fingertips to his mind or from the magic marks. It was like being touched between his fingers, the cool feeling that made his hair stand on end, and his nerves were instinctively tense.


    When he exerted a little force, he could feel his heart beating faster, and he felt a bit of chest tightness.


    "This magic mark... If it is destroyed, my life should also be greatly threatened, or even die." Du Di''an thought silently, but he did not expect his life to be linked to a magic mark, to be precise, It is connected with the blood-colored worm in the magic mark.


    He was lying on the bed, turned left and right, but didn''t fall asleep. Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of the "Guangming Doctrine" on the small table. He moved in his heart, took it over and opened it gently, only to see the flying quill characters falling into his eyes, the first sentence at the beginning. , so he squinted his eyes, "Brightness, is the truth?"


    "The world has light, so plants can grow."


    "Because there is light, we can ''see''. "


    "Light can give life to people, and the great creator of light, the God of Light, will shelter all those who are loyal to him..."


    The opening chapter of the canon is a statement of purpose and is also the core of the canon, and each subsequent chapter is a story that benefits from the "light", which is a phenomenon that everyone knows to be precise. Just because everyone knows it, it cannot be refuted! Because the effect of light is too great, what this canon says is basically correct, Du Di''an even thinks that what the canon says is not complete enough!


    The role of light...


    Without light, there would be no life on earth!


    This alone trumps thousands of examples.


    However, knowing is knowing, but Du Dian will not believe in the "God of Light". It is not bad that the role of light cannot be ignored, but... This has a dime relationship with your Holy See of Light?


    Du Di''an flipped through it hastily, and roughly understood how to recruit believers.


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    The first is to put forward some well-known natural phenomena, compile them into their own "teaching ideas", and then list them one by one. After reading it, most of them will have a sudden understanding, and they will be immediately convinced based on what they see in life.


    Once you are convinced, you can add your own ideas to it, confuse these ideas, and instill them into the minds of others. If your personality is not sound enough and your worldview is not strong enough, it will be difficult to distinguish the confused ideas, so you can fully believe it. become blind.


    Once blind, it is a devout believer, who believes what he says.


    "What is mentioned above is just the appearance brought by some light, and there is no scientific basis to explain it. Just like my father often said, the ancients were smart, but lacking tools, they can only know the truth, but do not know the reason, and the same is true of today''s people. "Du Di''an secretly said: "After perfecting the tools and entering the microscopic level, you can explain the origin of light from the root, and even allow people to see the shape of light."


    "My father often said that all ignorant beliefs are due to the backwardness of technology and cannot be explained."


    Du Dian firmly believed in his father''s words, and became more and more determined to become an alchemist.


    ...


    ...


    The three days of washing passed quickly.


    The two doctors would come over for routine examinations every day to observe the physical changes of Du Dian and others. In fact, they were just passing through. They had seen too many such examinations. Basically, those who were infected would develop symptoms soon. Only Those who are extremely tenacious will carefully hide their scars and endure it until the last moment of the third day to erupt, but there are very few examples of that.


    The basement opened, and Du Dian and others put on the new black soft armor that they sent. The size was also measured according to their broken soft armor, and it fit very well.


    "Everyone, please." A bright guard came over and showed everyone the way.


    Du Di''an and others did not see the blue-black long-haired knight, and left the castle with the bright guard. As soon as they arrived at the gate, they heard a voice: "Mr. Du Di''an, who is Mr. Du Di''an?"


    Du Di''an looked in surprise, and the speaker was a middle-aged gentleman wearing a black tall hat and a cane in his hand, looking up at Du Di''an and others.


    Scott, who was walking on the side, smiled and pointed to Du Di''an, "This is it."


    The middle-aged gentleman was a little surprised. He didn''t expect that it was only a big boy who made him wait here to deliver the letter, but he didn''t dare to neglect, he quickly stepped forward, took out a letter from the side of his chest, and said, "Mr. Dean, this is It''s a letter to you."


    Du Di''an swept the stamps and address on it. It was the stamp of the Mellon consortium and the address of the scavenger headquarters. He immediately understood that it was the two doctors who reported about the magic marks.


    Nodding slightly to say thank you, Du Dian put away the letterhead and opened it gently. The content was very simple: "Find me in the top office of the headquarters... Top floor?"


    Du Di''an naturally understands what the top level means. That is to deal with the top secrets of the scavengers. In short, if the top executives like Peet and other scavengers are trained or have meetings, they will be held on the top floor of the headquarters.


    "It''s about nominating you as a hunter, the headquarters is really quick." Scott smiled and said, "Congratulations, I became a hunter after being a scavenger once, and maybe I can spend more time in the wilderness in the future. met you."


    Mia next to him was stunned and said, "What, what''s the situation? Hunter? Dean?"


    Scott smiled and said: "You don''t know yet, Dean gave birth to the magic mark and is already a veritable hunter."


    Mia looked at Du Dian in a stunned manner, a little dazed.


    Du Dian smiled slightly and said to Scott: "This time, I would like to thank you for your guidance."


    "Small idea." Scott smiled, but was very happy in his heart, knowing that Du Dian had written down his favor, he immediately said: "I''ll leave with Mia first, after a few days after the material prices are evaluated, let''s meet at the headquarters again. ."


    Du Dian is a little surprised, the price of materials has not been evaluated yet? But thinking about those things, they are all modern items from the ruins outside the wall, and many things are things that people have never seen inside the wall. It does take time to evaluate the price.


    After watching Scott and Mia leave, the three of Macon also said goodbye to Du Dian and left here together in the exclusive carriage of the consortium outside.


    The other three consortium scavengers and the new boy, after politely saying goodbye to Du Dian, also chose a consortium carriage and left here.


    Du Dian accepted the letter and took the carriage directly to the headquarters.

 Chapter 78: Meeting

    Mellon consortium, scavenger headquarters.


    The carriage came galloping, and stopped in front of the door. Du Di''an got off the carriage, looked up at the huge sleeping building, walked up the steps, and came to the entrance hall, only to see that it was extremely empty, and there were several figures of consortium scavengers in front of the hall. Announcement before the tour information.


    This announcement card specifically announced the information required by scavengers, mainly changes in various areas under the Mellon consortium outside the wall, or changes in other adjacent areas. When Du Di''an entered the door, he glanced at random, and he could see the information on the announcement card from a distance, one of which was actually a message from the No. 8 area, which roughly meant that there were walking corpses in the No. 8 area, temporarily blocked, please scavengers Do not enter.


    Du Di''an knows that, except for occasionally being assigned by the consortium to scavenge waste in a specific area like them, the scavengers are free to act when they go on a mission and can go to any scavenger area under the Mellon consortium without restrictions. Therefore, most scavengers will come to learn about the latest changes in each area before each trip, in case they encounter dangers like this time.


    After all, although these areas have been swept away, how can walking corpses and monsters ignore the ground lines divided by people, and often break into some areas that have long been scavenged, just like the "Dreader" that Du Di''an met.


    After Du Dian glanced at it, he followed the corridor inside the hall and went upstairs.


    "Hey, Dean?" Suddenly a voice came.


    Du Di''an turned his head to look, but it was Pete holding a cup of hot coffee, just came out of the office, smiled slightly, and said, "Mr. Pete."


    "The supplies you picked up haven''t been estimated yet, why are you here?" Pete asked curiously.


    Du Di''an is equally strange. Could it be that he hasn''t heard about his own business? Suddenly, it seems that the hunter''s affairs need to be kept secret, and ordinary scavengers can only rely on their qualifications like Scott, and hear some gossip. It''s just that Du Di''an didn''t expect that Peet''s identity was not known, and he immediately avoided the topic euphemistically, saying: "The above asked me to come over, it seems to have something to do with me."


    Pete was stunned for a moment, suddenly thought of something, frowned, and said to himself: "No, even if you doubt it, you won''t doubt you newcomers..." Looking at Du Dian''s doubtful eyes, he hesitated. After a while, he approached Du Di''an and whispered: "I guess I''m looking for you, it''s about the walking corpse in the eighth district, I have heard about it, and in the eighth district''s accident, a hunter died, a few A few days ago, there was news from the Hunter Headquarters that they want to thoroughly investigate your group of scavengers who entered the eighth district, but there is no reason to doubt you newcomers, so don¡¯t worry too much, just pay attention to what you say.¡±


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    Du Di''an couldn''t help but startled, his whole body was slightly erect, as if he was instinctively alert when he encountered danger, but he soon realized that he had overreacted, his face quickly returned to nature, and said with a smile: "That''s the case, I''m still wondering, thank you Pete Sir''s reminder!"


    Pete smiled and said, "I look at you very well, work hard!" After that, he left with hot coffee.


    Du Di''an looked at the back of his departure, and turned back slowly, the smile on his face was gone, his eyes narrowed slightly, and the cold light was looming. Looking for traces, he did not expect to expand the scope of the thorough investigation to their scavengers. Although he is not afraid, such a big action is enough to show that the Hunter Headquarters is very serious about this matter!


    He quickly recalled the traces he had dealt with in his mind, and suddenly thought of one thing, this magic trace is the ability of every hunter, then, will other hunters have any special ability, such as a keen sense of smell like him?


    Thinking of this, his fingers clenched slightly, and he made up his mind that even if something was investigated above, he would be beaten to death!


    He looked at the steps ahead, his expression returned to calm, and he walked step by step.


    There are four floors in the scavenger headquarters, and each floor has guards. These are private guards selected from the nobles belonging to the Mellon consortium. Only nobles have the right to recruit private armed forces, but the number of places is limited, which is also the foundation for the consortium. One of the basic requirements.


    When he came to the fourth floor, Du Dian stood in front of the corridor, not knowing which room to knock on, and suddenly thought of the two attendants by the stairs, and immediately asked them about the room of "Mr. There was a soft knock on the dark red lacquered wooden door of a room on the side.


    The door opened, and it was a middle-aged butler who looked like a middle-aged housekeeper. He looked at Du Di''an up and down, with a smile on his face, and said, "You are Du Di''an who has joined the consortium, please come in."


    Du Dian nodded slightly and entered the room.


    The splendid golden light hit him suddenly, and the faint fragrance floated from every corner of the room. The feet he stepped on were extremely soft, and it turned out to be a deep red blanket. He glanced at the room quickly and accurately, and probably everything fell into his eyes. All the tables, chairs, sofas, desks, and oil paintings were extremely expensive, and an overwhelming atmosphere of elegance and wealth crowded over.


    He sighed deeply in his heart, and looked at the upper part of the room, on the figure below a huge oil painting of a woman, this is a well-built middle-aged man, with thick eyebrows and star eyes, with a bit of ruthless temperament. At the same time, there is a bit of vicissitudes and laziness. The most striking thing is the side of his chin, near the neck, with a finger-long scar.


    The location of this scar is shocking, making people think that if it deviates by half a centimeter, the carotid artery may be cut off.


    "Little guy, come and sit." The middle-aged man looked at Du Dian with a little surprise in his eyes, and said with a smile.


    Seeing his gentle attitude, Du Dian knew that he was not asking about the hunter, so he was relieved and walked to the sofa opposite him and sat down.


    "I have seen your resume, the radiation value measured before is only 0.8, less than one!" The middle-aged ''Fiden'' gently opened a notebook on the table and smiled at Du Di''an: "This time you just When you come back from outside the wall, the radiation value in your body has only just broken one, but you just came back, and the radiation content in your body is high. After a period of time, your body will automatically adjust and adapt, and the radiation content should be reduced by about 0.1. For example, the radiation content is still less than one, little guy, do you know that this is the radiation content that only hunters have?"


    Du Dian nodded slightly, not surprised.


    "So, it''s not surprising that you can give birth to a magic mark. However, I would like to know, where did your magic mark... come from?" Wei Dun smiled slightly, but his eyes narrowed slowly, as if in Examining every subtle change on Du Di''an''s face.

 Chapter 79: "Soul Crystallization"

    Regarding this issue, Du Dian was well prepared, and honestly followed the previous rhetoric: "I don''t know this either. After I passed out of coma, I had this."


    "Coma?" Wei Dun was very interested and said, "How did you get coma?"


    Du Di''an was calm on the surface, but his mind was spinning rapidly. If he changed it to the previous one, he would only vaguely say "I don''t know" to bring it. But when he heard Pete''s words, he knew that the hunters had already investigated the eighth district, and after learning about the magic marks, he also understood that this was not unique to him, but that every hunter had some peculiar abilities. The hunter burned the corpse, and his corpse was also eaten by the black behemoth, but he was not sure whether there were any traces left at the scene that he hadn''t noticed, exposing him.


    Moreover, the death of a hunter and the birth of a hunter are both big events, and it is easy for people to associate them together.


    Thinking of this, Du Di''an changed his mind and said, "I saw a hunter fight with a huge monster, and I was so frightened that I fainted. Lord, what is that monster? It''s so big!" He couldn''t help clenching it tightly, his body trembled slightly, as if he couldn''t stop the fear in his heart.


    Xie Dun glanced at his slightly trembling legs under the tea table, with a little thought in his eyes, the process only paused for a few seconds, he quickly retracted his gaze, lowered his head and made a sketch on the notebook, saying: "Then The monster is called the Dread Dye, it belongs to the named monster, and the parasitic soul worm has been born in the body, your magic mark is actually the corpse of the parasitic soul worm."


    "Fear of the dye?" Du Dian murmured, and then he knew the name of the monster killed by him, but the last words made him a little surprised. Just when he wanted to ask directly, he suddenly became alert, and his face showed panic. Said: "Sir, what is the parasitic soul worm you are talking about, it, it entered my body? Then I, then I am not..."


    Eidun raised his head and said with a smile: "Don''t worry, I said, that magic mark is the corpse of a parasitic soul worm, it was already dead when it burrowed into your body, but although it is dead, it will come soon. Before death, it was connected to your body. Its corpse turned into a magic mark, and the location of the magic mark is your deadly place. It is as important as your head and heart. Remember to protect it carefully in the future, and the best Don''t reveal the location of your magic marks casually."


    Du Dian was stunned for a while, but there was a surprise in his heart. He was always worried that the worm was in his chest, and he might attack him at any time. He didn''t expect to be dead, so the hidden danger was much smaller! At the same time, he also captured a piece of information from Ye Dun''s words. It seems that the location of each person''s magic marks is different, his own is on his chest, and other hunters are on other parts.


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    "Little guy, you are very lucky." Yu Dun said with a smile: "If you can get such an opportunity, the goddess of luck will take care of you. Originally, the headquarters planned to see your performance. If you performed well, wait for another two years. I will give you a chance to apply for a study at the Hunter Academy, and then buy a parasitic soul worm for you, so that you can become a truly qualified hunter."


    "Unexpectedly, you unexpectedly became a hunter ahead of time. In this way, it saved the headquarters of the funds to buy parasitic soul worms. Moreover, your magic marks are still afraid of dyers. You may not know this. It is an extremely rare type of monster named, I believe that when you arrive at the headquarters, other hunters will be very jealous of you."


    Du Di''an continued: "This is all thanks to the cultivation of the consortium! Sir, what are the parasitic soul worms you are talking about? Do you want to buy them? Don''t we have them in the consortium?"


    "This is a type of parasite that feeds on the souls of monsters." Dian didn''t mind explaining it to Du Di''an, and smiled: "It is usually found in more special powerful monsters. Once this thing enters the human body, it will die! Therefore, the ability of the hunters cannot be given to each other, so the number of hunters has been unable to increase, because there are too few named monsters, and it is difficult to meet."


    "Although the consortium has the ability to capture the named monsters, it has not yet found a way to raise the parasitic soul worms, unless it is to directly raise the named monsters, but the monsters are not allowed to be brought back into the wall, so they can only be purchased from the Holy See of Light. , they have the cradle of the god of light, and they can save the live parasitic soul worms, but the price is extremely expensive."


    Du Dian came to a realization, but his heart was secretly awe-inspiring. It is no wonder that the Holy See of Light, as a religious organization, can recruit a large number of guards and knights. Even all financial groups need to give the Holy See of Light face. It turns out that in addition to superficial beliefs, there are deep substantive interests. penetration.


    "This time I asked you to come here in secret. Your identity as a hunter has not been disclosed yet, including other high-level executives in our headquarters, who are still not aware of it." Wei Dun smiled: "This is to protect you, and I hope you don''t make too much publicity. , the headquarters will send someone over to confirm your identity soon, and after confirmation, they will go through the identity procedures for you and become a hunter of our consortium."


    Du Dian nodded slightly, but secretly said in his heart, in addition to protecting me, the real purpose should be to be afraid of other consortiums knowing the news and secretly digging their feet, right?


    "Oh, there''s one more thing." Yu Dun suddenly remembered and said: "The seven soul crystals you submitted, also known as cold crystals, each cost a gold coin, although your identity has not been processed yet, But this is given according to the proportion of the hunters, and if they are scavengers, they can only get one silver coin."


    Soul Crystal? Only then did Du Di''an know the name of the dark blue ball, and at the same time, his heart was stunned. The ratio of the scavenger and the hunter was ten times different. You must know that he is a seed object, and he has a 30% share. , isn''t the hunter a 300% share? Isn''t the consortium losing money?


    Seemingly seeing Du Dian''s surprise, Wei Dun smiled and said: "Anyway, you are going to the Hunter''s Headquarters, let me tell you the truth, the percentage of the scavenger''s income is 50% of the total price of the consortium''s transportation costs. , the remaining 50% will be paid by individuals for material identification fees, consortium transportation fees and other handling fees and taxes, and then divided with the consortium, this is the case with all consortiums, not our family."


    Du Di''an was stunned when he heard it, and he couldn''t help but sigh secretly. The businessman''s way of making money is really cruel. Think about those scavengers who work hard to pick up everywhere outside the wall, and even endanger their lives. Things can only be divided into a very small part, and the consortium only needs to provide channels and other channels outside the wall to obtain a lot of profits, which is simply a white wolf with empty gloves.


    "It seems that the really powerful businessmen are not transactions at all, but robbery." Du Di''an felt that he had learned a lot.


    "What does this soul crystal do?" Du Dian asked curiously.

 Chapter 80: The Power of the Dreaded One

    "It''s a secret." Ye Dun smiled lightly and said, "However, it''s not a secret among the senior hunters, I can tell you a thing or two personally, this thing is one of the raw materials for ''God''s Blessing'' One, it can enhance physical strength, but if you use it directly, you will be infected by the resentment of walking corpses in these soul crystals, and it will easily fall into walking corpses or other monsters."


    Du Dian was startled.


    He remembered that when he branded the magic mark, he seemed to have absorbed a soul crystal while in a coma, but nothing happened.


    Could it be because of the magic marks?


    "Even hunters can''t use it directly?" Du Dian asked.


    She shook her head, "No."


    Du Dian was a little stunned, and his heart couldn''t help thumping wildly. Can''t the hunter? But he can! At least, since he absorbed the cold crystal, he has not felt any difference in his body. If there is any change, then on the washing day, the two doctors will definitely be able to detect something. After all, they are seniors with old qualifications. doctor.


    Magic marks!


    The hunter''s magic marks are different, so their abilities are also different. Du Dian suddenly felt a shock in his heart. Could it be that the real ability of his magic marks is not the super sense of smell? But... to be able to digest cold crystals?


    Or, is the digestion of cold crystals only one of the characteristics of the ability?


    Thinking of this, Du Dian couldn''t help but get a little excited. If this is the case, he can use the cold crystal secretly in the future, and he doesn''t need to hand it in at all. Although, a cold crystal is equal to a gold coin, that is, 10,000 copper coins. Based on the price of this world, it is equivalent to 10,000 yuan in the old era. If you absorb it, it will be gone. It can be seen that he knew the cruelty outside the wall. , of course, will no longer be fooled by money.


    "When you go to the finance department and show your ID card, you will be able to receive your gold coins. As for other materials, they are still identified in the ''Temple of Elements''. It will take some time to estimate the price, usually half a month. Around, one month at the latest." Ye Dun smiled.


    Du Dian was stunned, "The Temple of Elements?"


    Wei Dun smiled slightly, without elaborating, and said: "The people from the headquarters should be here soon, you go outside and wait first."


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    Seeing that he didn''t mean to say more, Du Di''an didn''t ask questions wisely, got up and said, "Thank you, Mr. Zeton, then I''ll leave."


    "Um."


    After Du Di''an left the room, Wei Dun turned his head to look at the middle-aged butler next to him, and said with a chuckle, "What do you think?"


    "A very smart, promising little guy." The middle-aged butler said respectfully.


    Ye Dun nodded slightly, sighed, and said, "Yes, unfortunately... After all, it is not a bright physique, and its lifespan will not last long. Even if it does not die in the mouth of the monster, it will be eroded by radiation sooner or later, unless you can buy the ''Bright Divine Water'' '', but the price of this thing is too expensive, unless a top hunter has the capital to buy a little bit."


    "Unfortunately." The middle-aged butler nodded.


    The pen in his hand tapped lightly on the notebook on the table, and said thoughtfully, "The hunter in Area 8 died, this little guy must know the truth, but if he doesn''t say it, we can''t torture him, even if It''s the headquarters, so I shouldn''t be willing to interrogate it. After all, a hunter has been lost, and it''s rare to have a new replacement, or the rare "Dye Dreader" magic mark. Those guys should be gone. "


    The middle-aged butler nodded slightly and said, "The above said that the body of the "Dread Dye" was burned to death. He was a little nervous when he spoke earlier, but his eyes were calm. There is no way to disguise it. I suspect that it is probably the He burned to death. "


    "Yeah." Xie Dun nodded slightly, and he naturally saw this. Although Du Di''an disguised well, his ability to recognize people was still extremely keen.


    ...


    ...


    Mellon Consortium, Hunter Headquarters.


    In an office castle.


    With a bang, a slender, white and tender palm slapped the table fiercely. The owner of the palm was a woman in scarlet armor. She stared angrily at the bald middle-aged man behind the desk, almost roaring: "I will. My brother is a relative, do you want my brother to die like this inexplicably, I have already checked, the Huasheng Consortium and the military have recently recruited new hunters, I just want the headquarters to connect me, Let me go and ask them myself!"


    The bald middle-aged man looked calm, watching the saliva from her mouth splashing onto his face, but did not wipe it, and said quietly: "You should be clear, we have no evidence, even if their hunters sneak in secretly, it is only to blame The hunters patrolling the No. 8 area were negligent and did not notice it in time! Moreover, the forensic doctor has already experienced the corpse, and your brother did die in the body of the "Dread Dreader". What has been digested is only a few residues and pieces of soft armor. I I know you''re angry, but the monster that killed your brother is dead, what else do you want? "


    "I want revenge!!" the scarlet woman roared: "Even if my brother was killed by the Dread Dread, I will never allow others to leak my brother''s achievements, the inside of the Dread Dread If there is no parasitic soul worm, there must be others beside him. Why, why let my brother die in vain, but he gains the spoils? "


    The bald middle-aged man said calmly: "You can''t accept that I can understand it for a while, but I will never allow it to hurt the interests of the consortium. You''d better not make any small moves. The consortium will investigate this matter. Clear, give you an explanation!"


    "Injuring the interests of the consortium?" The scarlet woman couldn''t help laughing, with tears in her eyes: "My younger brother is dead, yet you tell me the benefits? You think I don''t know how much benefit I have brought to the consortium over the years. ?!"


    The bald middle-aged man knew that he had made a blunder and frowned slightly, and said, "I said, the consortium will give you a satisfactory explanation. If we find that person and prove that he is from another consortium, we will never let it go. Don''t worry, it''s just that you can''t act on your own in private, if you are caught by another consortium, you will suffer a big loss."


    The scarlet woman stopped her laughter, gave him a mocking look, and turned away without saying anything.


    At this moment, the door of the room was suddenly pushed open, and a guard trotted in, first saluting the scarlet woman respectfully, and then approaching the bald middle-aged man, saying, "Sir, this is news from the scavenger headquarters. "


    The bald middle-aged man frowned, but he still took the letter and opened it, and took a quick look.


    "Huh?" The bald middle-aged man was slightly stunned. He couldn''t help but look up at the scarlet woman''s back. Seeing that she hadn''t noticed this, he breathed a sigh of relief. He quickly closed the letter and ordered, "Understood, let''s go."


    The scarlet woman who had already walked to the door heard the guard''s words, her figure suddenly stopped, her eyes were slightly red, revealing Senhan''s murderous aura, and she strode away from the door of the room.


    After the scarlet woman left, the bald middle-aged man quickly took out a new letterhead and quickly issued an order.

 Chapter 81: Conflict

    Du Di''an came to the finance department on the first floor of the headquarters hall and received the gold coins he handed in from the seven cold crystals.


    These seven gold coins are worth the savings of more than ten years of ordinary families in residential areas! You must know that even the monthly salary of Jula and his wife, who are in better positions, is only five or six silver coins in total, which is already considered a high-paying class. Although it is said that one gold coin is equal to 10,000 yuan in the old era, in this era when the old era was just beginning to enlighten, the salary of the basic class was extremely low, just like the salary of the early old era workers, one or two hundred per month Even if the dollar is not bad, a household with 10,000 yuan can be called a small landlord and a small rich man.


    And this is only a small part of Du Dian''s scavenging income!


    Du Dian held the heavy and smooth gold coins, and he couldn''t help feeling emotional, but he was not excited at all. After all, this was bought with his life. Moreover, if it weren''t for his status as a hunter, he could only get seven silver coins!


    That''s two months'' salary for a basic-class worker.


    Therefore, if scavengers want to become rich, they still have to rely on luck to pick up particularly precious items.


    "I don''t know how much the other things I brought back are worth." Du Di''an thought to himself, although he now holds seven gold coins, he is already rich in residential areas, but alchemy is a profession that burns money. Some money did not satisfy his appetite.


    Putting the gold coins in his pocket, Du Dian came to the hall and waited.


    Not long after, there was a sudden commotion outside the hall of the headquarters. Du Di''an, but saw a tall woman in scarlet armor push open the door of the hall and strode in, her face was extremely cold and full of chills.


    Du Di''an glanced at the silver eagle-headed medal on her shoulder, and his eyes narrowed. This is the Hunter''s Medal. Three years ago, he saw it on the two Fino who led him to Hunter''s Castle, but the two eagles The head is bronze, but the woman is silver.


    The staff in the hall and a few consortium scavengers who are about to go on a mission also noticed the medal on this woman''s shoulder. After all, her battle armor is too flamboyant and peculiar, the scarlet color is like flowing blood, and the style is similar to Du Di''an and others. The Scavenger''s Soft Armor is different and easy to notice.


    "It''s the hunter-sam!"


    The people in the hall suddenly fell silent and looked at the woman cautiously.


    "Let the person in charge here come out." The scarlet armored woman stood in the middle of the hall and said in a cold voice.


    The two girls in front of the reception counter looked nervous. One of them hurriedly agreed and trotted into the next room. Soon, Pete and the slender old man who was in charge of the room came out together. The two of them saw the medal on the shoulders of the scarlet armored woman, their expressions changed, and they hurriedly bent over and said respectfully: "I have seen Lord Hunter, I don''t know. You are here to..."


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    "Stop talking nonsense!" The scarlet armored woman raised her hand, interrupted them, and said coldly: "Call me the scavengers you went to the eighth district this time, right now!"


    Pete and the lean old man were stunned for a moment. They looked at each other and saw what they meant in each other''s eyes. Pete respectfully said, "Lord Hunter, they have all returned to their respective residences. It will take some time to convene, please wait a moment."


    The scarlet armored woman looked at him coldly, and said, "Don''t bother me, I won''t see anyone before sunset today, hum, you wait!"


    Cold sweat broke out on Pete''s forehead, and he said, "Yes, yes, absolutely don''t dare to delay."


    The scarlet armored woman raised her head slightly, glanced around, and came to sit down on the sofa in the rest area where Du Di''an was. She immediately saw Du Di''an who was drinking milk tea, her eyebrows raised.


    Pete followed her figure and noticed Du Di''an, so he couldn''t help screaming badly, hurried forward, and shouted: "Boy, didn''t you see Lord Hunter, why are you standing there, don''t hurry up and salute, then get out!"


    Du Di''an saw a trace of anxiety in his eyes, and immediately understood that he wanted to distract himself and delay himself, and listening to the woman''s previous words, it was related to the hunter who died in the eighth district, so he couldn''t help frowning slightly. He went to the door, but he didn''t worry about anything, he nodded slightly to the scarlet woman, and he got up and prepared to leave.


    "Wait." The scarlet woman suddenly spoke up, looked up at him coldly, and said, "Are you a rookie scavenger?"


    Du Dian paused and looked back at her, "That''s right."


    "So..." The scarlet woman narrowed her eyes and said, "Have you been to District 8?"


    Du Di''an looked at the increasing chill in her eyes. It seemed that as long as she nodded, she would immediately take action. This kind of killing intent made him frown slightly, and a bit of disgust arose in his heart, and said, "That''s right."


    The murderous intent in the scarlet woman''s eyes suddenly flourished, and the brown-gray eyes turned a bit dark red, and she said coldly: "Little devil, why didn''t you die? Why are you so humble as to be able to survive? Why? Why? Didn''t you die?!"


    As she spoke, the complexion on her arm became a little crimson, as if it was bloodshot.


    Pete next to him saw this scene and hurriedly said: "Lord Hunter, Dean is our seed target, someone specially cultivated by the headquarters, who may become a hunter in the future, please don''t take offense to him, if he has anything If you offend you, I will ask him to apologize to you..."


    "Get out!" The scarlet woman turned back and yelled.


    Pete was suddenly stunned by the roar.


    The scarlet woman stood up slowly, staring at Du Dian condescendingly, full of resentment, anger, and sadness.


    Du Di''an thought she had investigated what evidence she had left behind, so she came here to question her, but she didn''t expect that she was just taking out her anger, and when she saw the sadness and anger in her strange eyes, she couldn''t help but move in her heart and asked, "Listen. Said that a hunter died in the eighth district, who is he from you?"


    "Shut up!" The scarlet woman raised her palm angrily and slapped it.


    Du Di''an''s face changed slightly, he hurriedly leaned back quickly, and thrillingly escaped the slap, and at the same time quickly stepped back a few steps, opened the distance, and looked at each other again, there was already a bit of anger and killing in his heart if this slap was a slap Ordinary scavengers like Macon are at least seriously injured. He is very aware of the power of hunters, and at the same time believes that the power of this woman must be stronger than himself.


    Pete was startled when he saw the other party''s action, and when he saw Du Dian dodging, he was even more horrified and speechless.


    The scarlet woman was also stunned, looked up at Du Dian, the grief and anger in her eyes suddenly turned cold, and said: "You are a newcomer scavenger, even if you are blessed twenty or even thirty times, you may not have such a reaction speed. , who are you!"


    Du Dian''s eyes turned cold. Although he knew that the woman was in grief and anger just now, judging from the merciless shot, he didn''t care about the severity. Perhaps in the eyes of the other party, even if he accidentally killed a scavenger, he would only get A few words of criticism, and even the consortium will take the initiative to shelter her, help her eliminate criminal evidence and confessions, and avoid the judgment of the court.


    It is precise because the punishment for murder is too light that he does not care about life.


    "I will record this slap today." Du Di''an stared at her and said, "If someone gives me a favor, I will pay it back ten times, and if I give me pain, I will retaliate a hundred times!"


    "Huh?" The scarlet woman''s face turned cold, "You dare to threaten me?" As she spoke, the figure suddenly rushed out.

 Chapter 82: Appointments

    "stop!"


    Suddenly, a light drink sounded.


    A burly figure quickly swept across Du Di''an and the scarlet woman. He raised his hand and held the thigh that the scarlet woman swept over. When he touched the thigh, the surging force made his face change slightly, and he stepped back two steps. To resist the momentum.


    The scarlet woman also took advantage of her strength to turn around and land, looking coldly at the burly figure standing in front of Du Di''an, and said coldly: "Bud, get out of the way!"


    This burly middle-aged man named ''Bud'' frowned slightly and said: "Don''t be ridiculous, Bai Lin, this little brother is a new hunter, I came here this time to appoint him on behalf of the hunter headquarters. "


    As soon as these words were said, the eyes in the hall suddenly fell on Du Di''an, full of inconceivable.


    Pete and the lean old man opened their mouths slightly, stunned.


    Du Di''an glanced at the man, thinking that it was a coincidence, otherwise, he could only run out of the street to escape the attack of this crazy woman.


    "New hunter?" Bai Lin was stunned for a moment, and suddenly thought of something, her face quickly gloomy, her brown eyes turned dark red, and her arms were highlighted with dark red blood vessels, all around her body. Bloody and suffocating, he said slyly: "So, the cheap one is this kid?"


    Bud frowned and said: "I know your brother is dead, you are very sad, but I hope you don''t make a fool of yourself, attack the hunters of the same consortium, you should know how serious the consequences are, you don''t want to destroy your future!"


    The scarlet woman didn''t seem to hear him, but stared at Du Dian with blood-red eyes, and said word by word: "You watched my brother get eaten by monsters? Why wasn''t you the one who was eaten, why? Just a scavenger. , what qualifications do you have to have a magic mark?!"


    Du Di''an looked at her indifferently and didn''t speak.


    The scarlet woman stared at him. After a while, the killing intent on her face suddenly subsided, and the dark red veins on her arms gradually disappeared into her skin. She licked her lips and said, "Little thing. , you said just now, you will retaliate against me a hundredfold, right?"


    When Bud saw her holding back the killing intent, he felt a little relieved. If the other party rushed up recklessly, he might not be able to stop him. He immediately turned around and said to Du Di''an: "Your name is Du Di''an, right? Lin apologizes, this matter has just passed, and you will still be companions on the mission together in the future, so there is a misunderstanding, why is there any unpleasantness?"


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    Du Di''an frowned, and with his intuition, this woman would never be kind to this, but considering the consequences, she temporarily held back her killing intent. Even if she apologized, it was impossible to let this matter pass, and the most important thing was The thing is, why did he apologize?


    When your brother is dead, can you take out your anger on others at will?


    Even if it is revenge, it is your brother who takes the initiative to harm others first, so don''t you allow others to fight back?


    "It''s okay to apologize, little thing, didn''t you say that you want to take revenge on me, I welcome it." The scarlet woman ''Bailin'' said in a feminine and authentic tone.


    Du Di''an''s face was cold and indifferent: "Yes, I didn''t expect that the hunter who was eaten was your brother. No wonder you are so angry. I can understand it. After all, his death was ugly and miserable."


    The chill in Bai Lin''s eyes suddenly thickened, her fingers clenched into fists, and the phalanges rattled, but in the end, she released her hand and left the hall without looking back, quickly disappearing from everyone''s sight.


    Bud smiled bitterly, looked back at Du Dian, and said, "Little brother, you can  do it."


    "You have passed the prize. Compared with her, I am still far behind. After all, she is hands-on, but I can only move my mouth." Du Di''an said calmly.


    Bud sighed: "Don''t blame her. Her parents died early, so she lived with her younger brother. Who knows that her younger brother died, and it is normal for her to be emotionally disturbed."


    Du Di''an looked at him strangely and said, "There are so many orphans, is it possible to anger innocent people at will when their relatives are dead? His brother was eaten by monsters, so she didn''t spread her anger on those monsters, but Looked for us weak scavengers to vent their anger, isn''t the life of the scavengers, not life? Just because their status is not as high as her, can she be angered and bullied by her? And after being bullied, you still need to understand her? Sympathize with her?"


    Bud was startled and couldn''t help but be speechless.


    "That''s all." Bud shook his head slightly, and stopped talking about this issue, with a smile on his face, and said: "Speaking of which, you are no longer a scavenger. This time I am here at the request of the headquarters to appoint a "hunter" for you. ¡± status, and awarding medals. "


    Du Di''an nodded slightly and didn''t say anything more, but secretly remembered this woman in his heart. This time, the matter will not end there. With the rules of the consortium, this woman may not harm him openly but secretly stumbles. There are not many children, so instead of waiting for others to take the initiative to trouble you, it is better to take the initiative to attack!


    "This is the hunter''s contract. After signing it, it is the official hunter of the consortium." Bud took out a document from the bag and handed it to Du Dian.


    Du Dian temporarily put away the plan in his mind, and carefully read the hunter synthesis, which is roughly the same as the scavenger contract.


    Hunters will get a house in the commercial area of the consortium for free, as well as a real estate license!


    However, this property certificate does not have the right of inheritance, that is to say, when the hunter dies, the house will be returned to the consortium.


    In addition, you will receive ten "Blessings of God" every month! You must know that he used to be a seed object only once a month. Now, the treatment of "God''s Blessing" is a tenfold increase. As for the treatment in other aspects, it is even more astonishingly high.


    Hunters can enjoy a 30% discount in all industries under the consortium, which is equivalent to VIP-level privileges.


    The Mellon consortium''s industries involve coal mines, real estate, hotels, slaves, transportation, etc. There are a large number of chain stores in any industry, so this 30% discount is by no means a small benefit.


    Du Di''an read it one by one, scanned the benefits, looked at other restrictive clauses, and signed his name after confirming that there were no unbearable clauses.


    "This is your Hunter Medal." Bud handed Du Dian a bronze eagle head medal.


    Du Di''an took a look and asked, "Her is silver, what does this mean?"


    Bud smiled and said: "It seems that you are quite attentive. She has just been promoted to ''Blood Swordsman'' not long ago and became an intermediate hunter. We are commonly known as ''Silver Head Hunter''. After all, she is still your superior. When performing tasks, the captains are all silver-headed hunters."


    Du Di''an frowned slightly, it would be very dangerous if he was assigned with this woman the next time he performed the mission.


    "This is the Hunter''s Handbook, you should look back slowly, it is about the Hunter, but remember not to show it to other non-hunter personnel. In addition, if your medal is lost, be sure to find the headquarters as soon as possible to apply. " Bud handed out a small booklet.


    Du Dian reached out and took it, nodded, and said, "I see."

 Chapter 83: The Four Major Occupations

    "Just appointed, you have seven days to adjust and rest." Bud smiled slightly and said: "After seven days, you will go to the headquarters to report, although you have the hunter''s magic mark, you still lack too much in other aspects, hunting. They have different positions, and the specifics are written here, you can think about it yourself."


    Du Dian thought of the ''bloody swordsman'' he said earlier, and nodded, "I see."


    "In addition, it is recommended that you live in a commercial area. Hunters perform tasks like scavengers. Sometimes they will gather urgently, and efficiency is the first! For example, if a named monster is detected in a certain area, you need to be dispatched immediately to prevent The monsters run away, so the hunters are usually on standby in the commercial area."


    Du Dian understood and nodded.


    The air and radiation content in the commercial area are better than those in the residential area. Even if he doesn''t say it, he will move in. This time, he happened to bring Jula and his wife to live together, and it should be a little repayment of their original adoption kindness.


    "Nothing else, I''ll go first." Bud smiled.


    Du Dian greeted him, and after watching him leave the hall, he looked at the pamphlet and medal in his hand. As for the hunter''s armor, it should be available after reporting to the headquarters in seven days, so there is no hurry.


    At this time, Pete and the lean old man approached cautiously, looking at the genuine Hunter Medal in Du Dian''s hand, still a little unbelievable.


    However, the two of them were able to sit in this position with extremely keen eyesight. Based on the previous words and performances of Bude and Bai Lin, combined with the information they had obtained, they had already guessed the approximate cause of the incident.


    "Di, Dean." Pete smiled unnaturally: "I didn''t expect you to be a hunter already, congratulations."


    "Congratulations!" The lean old man also congratulated him.


    Du Dian smiled and said: "It''s all well cultivated by you. During this time, Dean dare not forget the care of the two of you."


    "Where is it." Pete waved his hand quickly and said, "It''s all we should do, but your efforts have made you. I thought that in a few years, you might have the opportunity to become a hunter, but I didn''t expect that in a blink of an eye, you would become a hunter. Order in hand."


    "As expected of a seed object, it''s amazing!" The lean old man echoed.


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    Du Di''an was praised a little unnaturally by them. Knowing that it was the change brought about by his identity, it was not easy to take the initiative to say something. Instead, he seemed to be superior to others. Bone marrow changes!


    He sighed secretly in his heart. He had seen the cruelty outside the wall, and it was difficult for him to integrate into the consortium or other ordinary work systems. This is why he was reluctant to bow his head in front of the woman before, but instead bluntly expressed his inner anger. First, he knew it was useless to bow his head, and second, he didn''t want to! No one who has seen life is fragile, living a life that can die at any time in the execution of a mission, will no longer be willing to tolerate the bullying of others. Perhaps, this is why the hunters are so strong in character and hostility. reason.


    "I still have something to do, let''s go first." Du Di''an said to Pete and the old man: "I will come back to see when I have time. I still have three good brothers, so I will trouble you two."


    "Leave it to me." Pete smiled.


    Du Dian nodded slightly, and after saying goodbye to them, he turned and left the hall.


    Pate and the lean old man looked at each other with some emotion.


    Others in the hall were a little envious and envious, knowing that Du Di''an would live in a world out of their reach from now on.


    ...


    ...


    "It''s time to go back."


    Outside the hall of the headquarters, Du Dian called a parked consortium carriage to the residential area.


    On the way, he sat in the carriage and flipped through the thin booklet in his hand. He saw that the information in it was divided into several chapters. The first chapter was about the purpose and responsibility of the hunter''s birth, which Du Di''an naturally knew. , is to hunt monsters outside the wall.


    The second chapter is about the types of hunters.


    "There are four occupations in total, namely knight, warrior, thief, and hunter! The four positions are responsible for different tasks. Hunters pay attention to team action, and maximize the efficiency and safety of hunting monsters."


    "Knights and warriors are responsible for attracting monsters in front, thieves are responsible for scouting the surrounding environment, and hunters are responsible for long-range attacks."


    Du Di''an and his entourage toured and had some insights into his heart, "It''s like in modern warfare, there is infantry, responsible for the output and attraction of firepower in the front row of the land, there are air force surprise attacks, and there are artillery long-range strikes, it seems that whether it is a large-scale battle or a small individual soldier Group combat is nothing more than three aspects: frontal containment, long-range strikes, and intelligence collection!"


    "All junior hunters are basic occupations. After mastering the various abilities of the occupation, they can pass the advanced assessment and become intermediate hunters, and at the same time choose different specialties again!"


    "The advancement of knights includes shield knights, beast knights, etc., and swordsmen also include shield swordsmen and combat swordsmen. Previously, the woman was called ''Blood Swordsman'', which was a title given by others after advancing to combine her abilities. , in fact, she should belong to the battle swordsman!"


    Du Di''an understood that like the hunter he killed earlier, he should be the hunter, responsible for tracking the enemy and shooting from a distance.


    In the long development of hunters, there has been a systematic distribution in the wall, which can maximize benefits and efficiency! After all, people''s energy is limited, and everyone has the same specialization. Through teamwork, even monsters that are much stronger than themselves can be easily killed.


    "Bude let me think about it before, that is, let me choose my future position." Du Di''an thought, "Knights mainly fight head-on and are good at melee combat, but the monsters outside the wall are much stronger than hunters, and they are hard to face. If it is shaken, it is a disadvantage, and it needs to cooperate with long-range hunters to be efficient, while thieves mainly focus on traps and assassinations, the frontal ability is too weak, and it is troublesome to set up traps."


    "Gunpowder, firearms, these things are my secret weapons when I create them. Naturally, they can''t be easily exposed to others until they grow up, so I''m suitable for solo combat."


    "Only thieves and hunters can fight alone. Among them, hunters are more powerful. As long as the environment cooperates, they can easily hunt down monsters that are much stronger than themselves. Just like the hunter, only a few scavengers are needed to help. Under his restraint, it is possible to kill the black behemoth."


    Thinking of this, Du Dian immediately made up his mind that he would mainly learn about hunters!


    Moreover, the concept of gunpowder helped him develop his thinking. The first time he saw the hunter, a flash of light flashed in his mind, thinking that if the gunpowder was tied to the bow and arrow he shot, wouldn''t the lethality be improved several times?

 Chapter 84: Area Three

    Commercial District, Radiant Boundary, Moline Street.


    This is the property of the Mel family, and it is also the place where most hunters under the Mellon consortium live. Most of the houses allocated to the hunters by the consortium are concentrated here, mainly because they are close to the outside of the wall. It is relatively fast, and it is not easy for the detected prey to escape.


    At this moment, in a small European-style building on Molin Street.


    ''Bai Lin'' in scarlet armor sat in her living room on the third floor with a gloomy face. In addition to her, Gree, another young man, and a dark-skinned girl also sat here. They were Bai Lin''s team members and often Traveled together on a mission, the relationship is relatively deep, so after getting the news, I rushed over as soon as possible.


    "Boss, it''s a scavenger kid?" Another young man said in disbelief, "A mere scavenger dares to set fire to the "Fear of Dying", this is too bold, even if It was me. I was scared to death when I saw such a monster. After training for a long time, I was reluctant to adapt. "


    "So, you are very mediocre." Bai Lin looked up at him indifferently and said: "This little thing is the top graduate of this year''s scavenger school, the first in three items, although it is only the little tricks of scavengers, it can It''s not a small role that climbs to the top in any field."


    Gree nodded deeply, agreeing very much, and said, "I heard that this little guy is still threatening you and wanting to take revenge on you?"


    "Huh, Captain Revenge?" The dark-skinned girl frowned and said with a sneer, "Ignorance is fearless, do you think that if you become a hunter, you can be on an equal footing with others, just a lucky and daring brat. , to be able to say this, means that this person is also for this purpose. In my opinion, although we can''t kill him outright, there are many ways to make his life worse than death, or hire him Assassin, kill him directly and secretly!"


    Bai Lin shook her head slowly and said coldly: "There are many ways to kill him, even if he is killed in the open, it is nothing. He is valuable to the consortium when he is alive, but when he dies, it is worthless, and the consortium is impossible. So what do you do to me? It''s best to punish me or let me perform a few more tasks, but it''s not worth it, just relying on him, it''s not worthy of me to pay the price!"


    Gree nodded and said: "Yes, even if we secretly assassinate him now, the consortium will know that although there is no evidence, this kind of violation of the consortium will definitely cause unhappiness from above, and it will inevitably gradually suppress us. "


    "Not bad!" Bailin nodded.


    The dark-skinned girl understood, thought for a while, and said, "In that case, we won''t kill him for the time being, but it''s okay to give him some hardship. Isn''t he going to be assigned to live in the commercial area? We can do it for the house. Make him feel good, give him frequent water cuts, and see how he lives. In addition, everyone in the consortium must give you some face to the captain. As long as you say something, you can guarantee that he will pass the time from the moment he steps into the Hunter Headquarters. It''s very uncomfortable."


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    Bai Lin said indifferently: "These petty jokes are meaningless. Using such a small method will make the above look down on me Bai Lin, and will also startle the snake. During this time, let this kid have a good time and wait until the outside of the wall. At that time, I will make his life worse than death, hum!"


    Gree nodded and said: "There is no law outside the wall, and if you die, you will die, as long as you don''t leave behind the handle, but this little guy has to undergo vocational training after coming to Hunter''s headquarters. Then a year or two, we have to wait a bit longer."


    Bai Lin smiled coldly and said, "It''s not that easy to want to be safe during vocational training. If I expected it well, the profession he chose should be "Hunter", which matches his "Dread Dreader". Magic Mark''s super sense of smell is a perfect match. Once he chooses this, I will make him die ugly! "


    "Oh?" The three of Gree looked at her curiously.


    "If there is an emergency, apprentice hunters like him will also be dispatched outside the wall!" Bai Lin''s eyes were gloomy and she said to Gree: "You are also a hunter, and there are few hunters in the consortium. If you are injured, other hunters will They have their tasks, and then there is an emergency that requires hunters, what do you think the consortium will do?"


    The three of them were startled when they heard it, and their eyes suddenly lit up.


    "Haha, the boss is still smart." Another young man laughed.


    The dark-skinned girl sighed: "As expected of the captain, in this way, he will be sent outside the wall before he has learned the basic skills of a hunter. Even if the consortium intends to send him to other teams other than us, we only need to say hello, and the team will see him in the way again, and it will not treat him well."


    "Not bad." Gree nodded.


    The scarlet killing intent in Bai Lin''s eyes slowly subsided and said: "Let''s not mention this matter for the time being. This time I called you here, mainly because of this mission. We are going to Area 3. You guys should prepare well."


    "District 3?" The three of Gree were surprised, and at the same time, they were a little surprised.


    "I heard for a long time that most of the monsters in the third area are around ten hunting levels, and there are even terrible monsters with hunting levels reaching twenty. Of course, it is better not to encounter that kind of thing, if the captain takes the lead, let''s hunt down some monsters with hunting level ten, and we can make a lot of money." The dark-skinned girl smiled happily.


    Another young man''s eyes lit up and said, "I heard that there is a "Julu" in the third area. The oil in this thing is the top lamp oil, which is more expensive than gold! "


    Gree frowned slightly and said, "Wealth and danger are equally important. Some teams have fallen in Area 3, so we''d better be careful."


    Bai Lin nodded and said: "Yes, but our goal this time is to find the named monsters. In the named monsters in the third area, there should be a high chance of encountering rare monsters like the "Dread". , if you can hunt down one, you can make your magic marks evolve again! "


    Hearing this, the three of Gree couldn''t help but light up slightly.


    ...


    ...


    Du Di''an closed the book.


    The second chapter tells about the details of the hunter''s other privileges, as well as the details of his occupation. He just glanced at it briefly. At this time, the carriage had already crossed the boundary wall and come to the residential area.


    After a while, the carriage stopped on Linking Street.


    Du Di''an got out of the car with his luggage. Since it was the carriage of the consortium, he no longer had to pay the fare in his capacity. He looked at the familiar white-painted guardrail, and with a bit of nostalgia in his heart, he knocked on the door.


    "Who?" Jula opened the door and saw Du Dian at the door, with a surprise on his face, and said, "You''re back, hurry up, hurry in."


    Du Di was relieved and nodded and entered the house.


    It was already dusk, and Gray had also come home from get off work in the factory. He was reading the newspaper that he didn''t have time to read in the morning. Hearing Jula''s words, he immediately put down the newspaper and rushed over, with a look of joy on his face.

 Chapter 85: Alchemy Start

    Du Di''an saw the joy in his eyes and the few white hairs scattered in his hair, and suddenly felt that although they adopted him, they did not fulfill their obligation to be a son. Although the matter of getting him engaged to the Ivy family three years ago caused some shadows in his heart, as time passed, the hatred in his heart had already been healed, and his father often said that people are not sages, who can be blameless?


    "I have only been away for more than ten days, and I have lost so much weight." Jula looked at Du Dian distressed.


    Gray smiled and said, "Come over and sit down and talk."


    Du Dian nodded slightly, put down his luggage, and came to the dining table to chat with them about the business district. As for the task, it is a secret, so it is better not to tell them more.


    "You said that you were appreciated by the consortium and promoted your position?" Gray was a little surprised when he heard Du Dian''s words just now. Is this the first time he performed a task to promote his position? Is it too soon?


    Du Dian took out the key in his arms and said, "The consortium assigned me a house, and we can move to a new house in the future."


    Jula was stunned and said, "Assign a house directly? So lavish!"


    "Tsk tsk, as expected of the Mellon Consortium!" Gray sighed after hearing the news or events of the Mellon Consortium, and then shook his head slightly: "However, your mother and I have lived here for too long, and the surrounding neighbors are very Familiar, moving to a new place is a bit uncomfortable, and my work is not far from home."


    "So, then I can only live in the business district alone." Du Di''an regretted it.


    "Well, you''re about to get married, and you should learn to be self-reliant... eh? Wait, what did you just say? Live in a commercial area? You mean the house allocated to you by the consortium is in a commercial area?"


    "yes."


    "You, you... that what, when can we move in?"


    "...anytime."


    "Haha..." Gray suddenly burst out laughing. His lifelong pursuit was to live in a business district and see the life of a superior man. He didn''t expect such a wish to come true so suddenly.


    Jula covered her mouth and chuckled, looking at Du Di''an''s eyes full of care and relief, also did not expect Du Di''an to give them such a big surprise.


    Seeing them so happy, Du Dian couldn''t help but smile, suddenly thought of something, took out a gold coin from his arms, and said, "This is what I earned during this mission, and I borrowed a lot from you before. The excess shall be filial to you."


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    Gray and Jula were a little surprised when they saw the gold coins. They didn''t expect to perform a task and earn a gold coin in just over ten days. This was much higher than their salary, which was incomparable.


    "This is what you earned?" Jula was still a little unbelievable and couldn''t help but said: "What is your mission? Is it difficult to do? You were trained before, and you are a guard. Shouldn''t it, your mission is very dangerous, isn''t it?" Years of life had already made her understand that effort and gain are directly proportional, there is absolutely no free lunch in the world, and even if there is, it will be in the trash.


    Du Dian smiled and said: "Nothing, we don''t fight, there is no danger, but the task is more complicated, so it needs training, and ordinary people can''t do it." He grinned.


    Jula looked at him dubiously. "Really?"


    Du Dian nodded with great certainty.


    Seeing this, Jula was relieved and smiled: "So, you are really capable. When I first saw you, I felt that you were different from other children..." Speaking of this, she suddenly felt her husband''s arm Touch her, gave her a wink, and suddenly realized that he should not continue to mention the orphanage, so as not to evoke Du Di''an''s memory.


    Du Di''an noticed Gray''s little actions, but he didn''t care. Instead, he felt a little guilty, because he knew that although he could be nice to them, he would never forget his biological parents and his sister who loved him since childhood. They were held in his heart. Prison has taken up too many places, and no one can replace it.


    "After you go to the new house, I will help you put up a position in the consortium." Du Dian said to the two of them: "In this case, you don''t have to work, you can get the basic salary every month, and you don''t have to save so much. I will make a lot of money in the future." This is also one of his hunter''s privileges, as long as you move a little bit, in each industry chain in the consortium, you can choose one that has a chance to move to arrive.


    Gray smiled and said, "I''m still strong, and I don''t need your retirement. Although you make a lot of money, you can''t spend it indiscriminately. You can save it for a wife and children in the future, you know?"


    "Speaking of this." Jula suddenly smiled and said, "Dian, an aunt I met a few days ago is very nice, and her daughter is about to get married. I want to meet you, what do you think?"


    Du Dian couldn''t help but blushed slightly, and said embarrassingly: "This, this..."


    "You''re getting old too, it''s time to think about it." Gray also said.


    Du Dian is a little ashamed, where is the age, he is still a quarter away from the age of twelve, okay? Thirteen is the legal age for marriage, and in his worldview, even if he is thirteen, he is just a little kid, It doesn''t go well with getting married and having children!


    However, people in this era are aging fast, and diseases, disasters, and other problems will take a lot of lives every year, and even when the radiation in the body accumulates to a similar level, they will lose their reproductive function, so they get married very early, but he can''t adapt to this.


    "Let''s think about it when I get older." Du Di''an said tactfully.


    Jula saw the persistence in Du Di''an''s eyes, and said helplessly: "Okay, I''m not reluctant if you don''t want to, but you don''t want to go and see, her daughter is very beautiful, I have seen it, she is a little beauty ."


    "I agree with that." Gray laughed.


    Jula rolled her eyes at him.


    Du Dian shook his head again and again, and it would be even more hurtful to refuse after the meeting. However, in his heart, he suddenly thought of that moonlit night, sitting side by side in the pavilion in the garden, looking up at the figure of the gray moon chatting all night, his heartbeat could not help speeding up slightly, and he thought to himself, what is she doing now? Wouldn''t it be too abrupt if I went to find her directly?


    Thinking of these, I can''t help but have some thoughts drifting away.


    ...


    ...


    I chatted with Jula and his wife very late that night. Early the next morning, when it was just dawn, Du Di''an''s biological clock still pulled him up on time. After simply washing and eating breakfast, he said hello to Jula and his wife and went out, riding a carriage. Go to the ghetto.


    Jula mentioned the orphanage last night, which made him feel a little anxious. Although they only lived with Patton for a few months in the beginning, now three years have passed, and the memory of the face in his mind is blurred, but he still remembers from the bottom of his heart. When the orphanage was at a loss, they were by their side.


    He knew very well how orphans would be treated if they were not adopted beyond their age.


    Now, he has the qualifications to adopt them, and it just so happens that he has accumulated funds and is ready to start building his laboratory. He is short of a few people, and there are not many people he can trust. Except for the three Macons, they are the first disabled orphans who helped him.

 Chapter 86: The Disappearing Refrigerator

    Just returned to the long-lost slum, the stench in the air made Du Di''an frown slightly. Now his sense of smell is different from the past, and he can smell a very slight smell, not to mention the faint smell that ordinary people can smell. , for him, it was already extremely strong, and he felt a bit nauseated and dizzy for a while, which was an instinctual discomfort caused by the irritating taste.


    Du Di''an slightly covered his nose, waiting for his body to adapt, but also realized that his sense of smell is too strong, which is also a fatal weakness in itself!


    "If I encounter other hunters who have such super senses in the future, I can deal with them in this way. The advantages are the disadvantages. It seems that everything has two sides.", down the streets and alleys.


    The so-called "don''t feel bad after entering the toilet for a long time", as Du Di''an stayed longer, the feeling of physical discomfort gradually faded. He did not go directly to the Meishan Orphanage but followed the path to the garbage dump he visited three years ago.


    As it approached, the strong rotten and fishy smell became heavier and heavier. When he came to the garbage dump, Du Di''an suddenly saw that several garbage mountains that had been piled up here were leveled, leaving garbage residue on the ground, and The newly piled up mountain of garbage can''t help but feel disappointed. Although I expected that the garbage here would be cleaned up, I didn''t expect it to be removed so quickly.


    "I heard that a plague broke out in the slum last year, which caused many people to be infected. Now that the "black death season" is coming again, and the temperature is rising, it is estimated that this pile of garbage was cleaned up not long ago. "Du Dian has some regrets. If he had not been selected for the special training for scavengers three years ago, he would have learned a lot of knowledge by relying on the remaining energy of the freezer in the garbage dump, far more than what he had learned in the special training, but At that time, he could not resist at all, and could only obey the arrangement. Just like the conscription in the old days, without a strong background, he had to serve.


    "My refrigerated warehouse was also moved away together, and it is likely to be seen during transportation. As long as the information leaks, the intelligence network of various consortia and the military should not let the refrigerated warehouse leak out. After all, such a metal warehouse object can be seen from the outside alone, maybe it has been transported somewhere at this moment and has been studied in secret, but fortunately, I didn''t leave my photos inside, otherwise, it would be big trouble." Du Di thought secretly.


    At this time, he suddenly smelled some odors approaching, and his face suddenly turned cold.


    This is the benefit of the sense of smell, which can be detected in advance before the eyes can see it.


    He turned around and saw two middle-aged men in ragged clothes and a young man coming out of the back alley. The three of them vaguely flanked in three different directions, holding wooden sticks, rusty hatchets, and The dirty black stone stared at Du Di''an gloomily, approaching step by step.


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    "Little devil!" The middle-aged man with disheveled hair shouted in a low voice, "If you know the physiognomy, hand over your money and clothes!"


    "Three refugees." Du Di''an knew their identities when they looked at their clothes. Even in the slums, they were at the lowest level of existence. Refugees were equivalent to homeless people, homeless, and their bodies accumulated more or less. Excessive radiation, even as a coolie, is rarely accepted, so as not to affect the health of others.


    "Aren''t you going to kill me?" Du Di''an smiled faintly.


    The three of them looked at each other, and they knew from the fine fabrics on Du Di''an''s body that Du Di''an was not from their slums, so he just wanted to grab the money and leave. The tribunal intervenes in the investigation, which is what they are afraid of, but unexpectedly, this little devil seems to have no fear on his face, but rather fearless.


    "Little devil, stop talking nonsense, I''ll ruin you if you talk more!" The middle-aged man shouted through gritted teeth.


    Du Dian''s figure flickered and flew out suddenly.


    Bang bang bang!


    As the middle-aged man said, Du Dian was too lazy to gossip. He knocked the three of them to the ground in a single meeting. He was about to ask them where the garbage was going. Suddenly, he thought that if the freezer was taken away by the military or other forces for investigation, maybe they''ll send someone to watch over here to find out who put the freezer into the trash.


    Thinking of this, I couldn''t help but feel a little shocked in my heart, and I was a little fortunate. If I asked myself, it would be like being caught. I immediately stopped thinking, kicked the middle-aged man, and shouted: "Ask you, how to get to Meishan Orphanage, I will be lost."


    The middle-aged man was terrified, unable to understand how such a little guy could have such terrifying speed and strength. However, just as residential areas have mysterious and yearning perceptions of commercial areas, residential areas are also extremely mysterious in slum areas. He didn''t dare to think about it, and hurriedly said: "From, turn left from this road, pass two Turn right on the street, and then you can find someone to ask and you¡¯ll know.¡±


    Du Di''an snorted coldly and turned to leave. He naturally recognized the way to Meishan Orphanage, but he just wanted to explain the reason why he came here through the mouth of the other party. No doubt about him.


    "The energy of the freezer has been exhausted, and if the overall technology and industrial level have not improved, it is impossible to research anything, but let them go. However, this is the only thing my parents left for me. If I find out who will take it in the future If you leave, you must take it back." Du Dixin secretly said.


    After a ten-minute walk, he came to the Meishan Orphanage. The orphanage on the side of the hill was still very dilapidated, and the three years had only made it even elder.


    Du Di''an saw a fat woman in front of the gate from a distance, cleaning the sparse lawn in front of the orphanage.


    "Aunt Dai." Du Dian shouted.


    The middle-aged woman turned around in surprise, looked at Du Dian suspiciously, and said, "Who are you?"


    "Du Dian." Du Dian smiled.


    Delly''s face was full of astonishment. There were not many children in the orphanage. In just three years, she had not let her forget the boy. Moreover, among the children she had seen, the one with excessively fair skin was indeed more impressive. She couldn''t help looking up and down at Du Dian, and the outline of her face suddenly overlapped with her memory, and said happily: "Dian? Are you back? How are you, how are you doing with your parents?"


    "Very good." Du Dian smiled slightly and said, "I came back to see Barton and Joseph."


    Delly was stunned for a moment and said, "Joseph is still in the orphanage, but you can''t see Barton. He was sent to the Colin Mine last year."


    Du Dian frowned slightly. He remembered Barton''s age. He should have just turned thirteen years old. Even if he was to be sent to the mine, it should be sent to the mine during the "black snow season" this year. However, at this point, it was useless for him to tell Deliduo and immediately said: "I know, I will go to the mine to find him later, and I will ask Aunt Dai to help me call Joseph and Kruen, and Barry and the others will come out. , I want to redeem their household registration."


    Delly couldn''t help being stunned, then frowned quickly and said, "Dian, you, did you steal your parents'' money? Don''t be confused, and even if you have money, you can''t redeem Patton, He has been registered as a slave, and only the nobles can cancel his household registration."

 Chapter 87: cradle of the devil

    Du Dian nodded slightly, he naturally knew this, but for his current status, it is no longer a problem to remove a slave''s household registration, not to mention that Meishan Orphanage is still the property of the Mel family, his voice is not light, and immediately said: " Let Joseph and the others come out first, and go through their household registration procedures by the way, and I will take them away."


    Delly was a little anxious and said: "It will take a lot of money to redeem them. If you steal more than one silver coin, you will be imprisoned. Don''t be stupid!"


    "This is my own money." Du Dian knew that he couldn''t explain it to her in a few words, so he took out his guard medal and said, "I have been selected as a guard, and the monthly salary is quite high."


    Delly was stunned and said, "You, are you a guard?"


    Du Dian put away the medal and said, "I''m sorry."


    Delly came back to her senses and looked at Du Dian in amazement, and said: "It''s amazing to be selected as a guard, you should be one of the most promising ones in the years I''ve been taking care of the orphanage. Speaking of which, Lisa, who was adopted from the same group as you last time, remembers that she also had a good life. Although she was adopted by the gardener of Mel''s family, the child was smart and got the master of Mel''s family. Miss''s appreciation has made her a personal maid. She came back once last year and asked about your situation. She is also a nostalgic person. If you have any difficulties in the future, maybe you can ask her for help."


    Du Dian was slightly surprised, and suddenly recalled in his mind the girl who took the lead in attacking him when he was adopted. At that time, he felt that she was very young, but she hid her true nature deeply, which almost made him suffer. good. However, it has been a few years since the incident, and he is not in the mood to care about anything, saying: "I see."


    Delly smiled, then turned and entered the orphanage. After a while, three children ran out of the orphanage. It was Joseph, Kruen, and Barry who slept in the same dormitory with Du Di''an.


    As soon as the three came out, they saw Du Dian and were stunned.


    In the past three years, the few people who used to be crowded in one dormitory have changed quite a bit, especially Du Dian''s change, the absorption of nutrients is better, and the body has grown extremely strong, completely different from the thin and thin appearance at the beginning. The three of Joseph have also changed a lot, their height has grown by half a head, and the fleshy pimples on Joseph''s face are also a bit more bloated, which is extremely scary.


    Gruen''s left hand was congenitally deformed, his arm was only half-long, and only a few fingers were the size of a baby.


    Barry''s condition is better, and there is nothing unusual on the surface, but Du Dian has seen several sarcomas on his stomach, all of which are places where the radiation content condenses.


    Living in an orphanage, the ability of the three of them is stronger than that of the three of Macon. They quickly recognized Du Di''an himself, his face was full of surprises, he approached quickly, and a stuttering Joseph said: "Di, Dean, are you doing well?"


    Du Dian smiled and said: "Very good, I have the opportunity to come back to see you this time, mainly to take you out of here, and you will pack up your luggage later, you don''t need to bring clothes or anything else, I will go after you pack up. Patton."


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    The three were stunned, and Joseph stammered: "You, you mean, yes, take us away?"


    Du Dian smiled and said, "Can''t you trust me?"


    Klein responded the fastest, and said, "Of course, you can trust it, but Dean, you, do you have money?"


    "There are some, it should be enough to redeem you." Du Dian looked at the hope and excitement in the eyes of the three, knowing how eager they were to leave, and said with a smile: "Go pack your things, I will go through the household registration procedures for you first."


    The three looked at each other, but nodded quickly, turned, and ran back to the orphanage.


    Du Di''an came to the front yard of the orphanage, and immediately saw the squat woman who helped him with the procedures last time sitting behind the counter, yawning and listless, with a dark-skinned boy beside her, beating her legs.


    The little boy was quite alert, and when he saw Du Dian, he immediately gestured to the squat woman.


    The chubby woman opened her eyes and saw Du Dian walking in. She sat up straight with a smile on her face, and said, "Excuse me, who are you?"


    "Come to redeem people and go through the household registration procedures." Du Dian said briefly.


    The chubby woman came to her senses, shook her head, and said, "If you''re adopting, it won''t be until the adoption day..."


    "I want it now." Du Di''an interrupted her. The so-called adoption day is the day when the orphanage was launched, and the purpose is to maximize the benefits. The orphanage in this world is different from the orphanage in the old days. The hospital is not an exaggeration, and it still has a business license.


    "Our rules..." The chunky woman quickly explained.


    Du Di''an was too lazy to listen, took out the guard medal, and said: "The rules here, you can only manage yourself, I want it now, you''d better handle it immediately."


    When the chubby woman saw the medal, her face changed immediately. After all, the guards are public officials of the military. Although Du Di''an looks young, her height and special training experience have already polished her appearance to look like a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy. Without a doubt, after hesitating for a moment, he still said, "I see, I''ll handle it for you."


    "Joseph, Kruen, Barry." Du Dian reported the adopted name.


    The chunky woman was stunned for a while, but she still registered quickly. After a while, all the procedures were completed, and each person cost two silver coins. Seeing the gold coin thrown by Du Di''an, the chunky woman immediately understood that she was a real big man, and did not dare to neglect, and immediately gave Du Di''an change.


    At this time, Delly came in, saw Du Dian put away the contract, and asked, "How is it, is it done?"


    Du Dian nodded slightly.


    "They are already waiting for you outside." Delly smiled: "I hope they remember this kindness and repay you in the future."


    "You are wrong, this time I am repaying my gratitude." Du Dian said and left with the household registration contract of the three.


    The chubby woman looked at Du Di''an''s leaving back, and said strangely: "Sister Dai, who is this person, you seem to know him?"


    Delly smiled and said, "Remember that kid named Du Di''an three years ago, that''s him."


    The chubby woman''s eyes widened and she said, "I said, why is he a little familiar, he, he became a guard?!"


    ...


    ...


    Before coming to the orphanage, Du Dian looked at Joseph and the three of them carrying the bulging baggage, waiting anxiously in the open space, and immediately smiled, raised the contract in his hand, and said, "Let''s go, it''s done, This is your respective household registration, please accept it."


    The three of them looked at the real black and white words in front of them, and their bodies trembled slightly with excitement. Joseph''s eyes were red, tears came out, and slid down the fleshy lumps on his face, saying to Du Di''an: "Dian, I, I ¡­¡±


    Du Dian looked at the gratitude of the three, but was a little embarrassed, and said: "Let''s be polite, let''s go, Barton is still waiting for us."


    "Dian, I want to thank you for this time!" Kruen said solemnly.


    "Well, otherwise, we have to be like Barton..." Barry clenched his fist tightly.


    Du Dian smiled and said, "Don''t be so nauseous, let''s go."


    When the three of them saw this, they didn''t say anything more. Before leaving, they turned around and took a deep look at the orphanage. They also saw Delly and the squat woman at the door. They didn''t know that this time, Their lives will change forever!


    Similarly, no one knows that in the annals of later generations, this ordinary and unremarkable dilapidated orphanage has been outlined by all historians with a scarlet title - the cradle of the devil!

 Chapter 88: Extraction

    Colin Mine, a mine run by the Foster Coal Mine Chamber of Commerce under the Mel family, mainly produces iron ore.


    There are very few horse-drawn carriages in the slums. Usually, the management class of the various chambers of commerce or factories stationed in the slums will take the horse-drawn carriage to facilitate travel.


    It was the first time for the three of Joseph to ride the carriage, and they were a little nervous.


    Du Di''an knew that they were used to hard times, and it was difficult to get used to it for a while, so he didn''t say much. Half an hour later, everyone came to the Colin Mine in the western suburbs. In the town in front of the mine, the most conspicuous and imposing building was the branch of the Foster Coal Mine Chamber of Commerce responsible for this mine.


    Du Di''an asked the carriage to stop in front of the Chamber of Commerce.


    The first to get out of the carriage, Du Dian paid a fare of eight copper coins, turned and looked up at the chamber of commerce, greeted Joseph and the three, and came to the door of the chamber of commerce first.


    The two listless young guards at the door saw the person coming and stood up a little bit. After seeing that it was just a few children, they returned to their lazy appearance. One of them looked at Du Dian up and down and said, "This is the Foster Chamber of Commerce. , what''s the matter with you?"


    Du Di''an said: "Let the top person in charge here come to see me."


    The two were stunned for a moment, and one of them rolled his eyes and said, "Little brother, you are from a residential area. If you come here to buy minerals or place an order for your master, someone will be in charge of receiving you. As for I want to see our branch president, but he doesn''t have time to talk to you."


    Du Dian took out the guard medal and said, "You just need to go and spread the word. I came here instead of Mel''s main house."


    When the two guards saw the medal with the swords crossed, they were stunned and looked at it carefully. They were sure that it was not a fake. Then they looked at Du Dian with a doubtful look. He hesitated for a moment before and said, "Wait a minute, I''ll ask. , haven''t asked your name yet?"


    "He is not qualified to know." Du Di''an said indifferently.


    The guard heard Du Dian''s big tone, and he murmured in his heart, but the other party was a guard after all. Although he had no right to intervene in their chamber of commerce, Du Dian said that he came on behalf of Mel''s main family, and the meaning was different.


    Soon, the guard ran in.


    Du Dian also followed, and another guard did not dare to stop him.


    Du Di''an came to the chamber of commerce, scanned it roughly, and saw the luxurious atmosphere of various buildings in the commercial area. This high-end and gorgeous chamber of commerce hall in the slum area was a bit poor in his eyes, just find one Sit down on the hospitality sofa, and let Joseph and others come over to sit and rest.


    When the three of Joseph came to such a luxurious and clean place for the first time, they were nervous and restrained and followed Du Di''an closely.


    After a while, the guard came back with a tall woman following him.


    When the guard saw Du Dian sitting and resting in the hall, he immediately said respectfully to the woman behind him.


    The woman looked at Du Dian, and when she glanced at the three Joseph sitting next to him, her brows were wrinkled, and there was a hint of coldness on her face, she came over, and said, "Excuse me, you are sent by Mel''s master. people?"


    Du Di''an noticed the doubt and contempt in the woman''s eyes, and raised his eyebrows: "Are you the branch president here?"


    "I''m the supervisor." The woman frowned when she saw that Du Dian didn''t answer the question.


    Du Di''an''s face became cold, but he didn''t bother to pursue it, and said, "I''m here to mention a person, the miner who was assigned to you not long ago. Can you decide this matter?"


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    The tall slender woman immediately knew Du Dian''s intention, and her expression was a little displeased: "All the miners have become slaves, if you have a nobility''s handwriting, I can propose it to you, otherwise, you must pay a high amount of compensation. Buy it, but even if you buy it, you will still be a slave, and you will not be compensated for being killed by others.¡±


    Du Dian took out his Hunter Medal and said indifferently: "Do you know this?"


    The tall slender woman was taken aback for a moment, then shook her head and said, "I haven''t seen it before."


    "Then let your branch president come over!" Du Dian said.


    The tall slender woman couldn''t help choking with anger, and said: "You are a guard, right? If you don''t have a hand letter from Lord Mel, I have no right to inform you, that the branch president is very busy, not everyone can see it, even if You are a guard and have no right to interfere with our Chamber of Commerce."


    Du Di''an looked directly at her and said: "I can only tell you, as long as I say a word, you can end your job from now on, you are not qualified to know my identity, go and ask your branch president to come over when you know each other, otherwise, at your own risk!"


    The tall slender woman was so angry that she wanted to laugh, but when she saw Du Dian''s icy eyes, she couldn''t laugh. She suddenly thought that the other party could become a guard, so she shouldn''t be a crazy person, and when she heard Du Dian''s big tone, she also felt in her heart. She was a little terrified, maybe the other party had some background that she didn''t know, she gritted her teeth slightly, and said, "Well, wait here, I''ll help you inform the president."


    After speaking, he turned and left quickly.


    The three of Joseph were a little stunned. They didn''t expect Du Dian''s attitude to be so tough and domineering, completely different from the taciturn and thin boy in their impression.


    After a while, a middle-aged man in a black suit followed behind the tall slender woman, and saw Du Dian and others from a distance, frowning, but still maintaining politeness, holding back his temper, he stepped forward and said: "Hello, I am The branch president here, who are you?" He looked at Du Dian, and it seemed that as long as Du Dian''s answer made him dissatisfied, he planned to let them get out immediately.


    Du Di''an naturally felt the doubt and impatience in the other party''s eyes, and he was too lazy to say more. He raised the Hunter Medal and said, "Do you know?"


    The middle-aged man''s eyes were sharp, and he immediately saw the pattern on the medal. He couldn''t help shrinking his pupils. He looked at Du Dian in horror and quickly reacted.


    Du Dian saw that he knew him, and the coldness in his eyes was also put away, and he ordered: "I want to mention a person, called Barton, who is a miner who was assigned to you not long ago, you will let him come over immediately."


    The middle-aged man hurriedly said: "Yes, let''s do it now." He turned around and waved to the tall slender woman, signaling her to deal with it immediately.


    The tall slender woman couldn''t help but be astonished when she saw such an awe-inspiring attitude. She had only seen such an attitude from the president when the General Chamber of Commerce came to inspect. She couldn''t help thinking of Du Di''an''s previous words, and the hairs on her back stood up slightly. She was a little fortunate. I resisted the urge, otherwise, I might lose my job.


    Half an hour later, the tall slender woman came back with a boy who was dark and thin like a monkey. She frowned slightly, endured the unpleasant smell on the boy''s body, and brought him to Du Di''an, respectfully: "Sir. , this is the person you want."


    Du Di''an''s eyes had already seen Barton, and what made him a little stunned was that Barton, who had not seen him for three years and had some lame legs, turned out to be like a little old man. Ribs, messy hair, and no flesh on his face, making his eye sockets sunken.


    But Patton''s eyes fell on the three of Joseph, and he was a little stunned.


    The three of Joseph recognized Patton at a glance, jumped up from their seats, stepped forward, and said, "Old bus, it''s me, we''re here to find you."


    "You, why are you so thin?"


    "Don''t you even have food to be a miner?"


    The three of them looked at the thin Barton, both pleasantly surprised and heartbroken.


    Barton''s throat was hoarse, and he said in confusion: "You, why are you here?"


    "Dean brought us here." Kruen pointed to Du Dian on the sofa and said, "Dean redeemed us all."


    "Di, Dean?" Barton looked at Du Dian blankly.


    Du Dian didn''t expect to live as a miner in just one year, so he tortured him like this and sighed: "It''s me, it''s late, are you okay?"


    Only then did Barton make sure that he didn''t admit his mistake, with tears in his eyes, and said, "You still, you still remember me, I thought..."


    Du Dian sighed and said, "I have been to other places in the past three years and can''t leave, otherwise I can redeem you in advance."


    Hearing this, the middle-aged man became more convinced of his identity, and said respectfully, "Sir, Patton is the smallest miner here and has always been taken care of, but the living conditions of the miners are already poor, you know this, so the change There is nothing we can do about it, it''s all the rules above."


    "You shut up first." Du Dian glanced at him.


    The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, and he closed his mouth immediately. He had no temper at all. He knew what kind of monster he was facing. Even if he killed him, he would be punished at most.


    The tall slender woman was stunned and suddenly felt that she underestimated Du Dian''s identity.


    "Let''s go." Du Di''an got up and said, he didn''t pursue anything, although Barton''s life here is not as "well cared for" as the middle-aged man said, at least one sentence the other party did not say wrong, this is all the above provisions.


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 Chapter 89: Awakening

    After leaving the Ford Chamber of Commerce branch, Du Dian took Joseph, Barton, and others to a nearby tavern, ordered a table full of dishes, and let them have a full meal first. After all, they were busy for a long time, and it was almost time for dinner. Everyone is hungry.


    "Di, Dean, order a little less, we can''t finish this much," Krusen said while looking at the table full of dishes, gulping his saliva.


    Du Dian smiled and said, "If you can''t finish eating, just throw it away, it''s not worth much."


    "That''s not good, let''s finish eating." When the few people heard it, they couldn''t help gobbling up.


    At this time, a waiter girl in a white dress came over, covered her nose and glanced at Joseph and the others, and said to Du Di''an: "You ordered a total of 68 copper coins."


    Du Dian frowned and said, "We haven''t finished eating yet."


    "We''re here to eat first and then pay the bill." The waitress said in a cold voice.


    Du Di''an was a little unhappy, but he didn''t bother to care about it. He took out a silver coin and flicked it into the tray in her hand: "Don''t look for it, there are three more servings of this grilled steak."


    The waitress girl was stunned for a moment. She didn''t expect Du Dian to be so generous, but she underestimated them. She didn''t say much and turned to the kitchen at the back to add dishes.


    "It''s so expensive." When Barton and the others heard the girl''s words, they were a little embarrassed to eat, and they didn''t know if they should swallow it or not.


    Du Dian waved his hand and said: "It''s all small money, you can eat it, if you don''t have enough, continue to add, I''m not short of money."


    Several people in Barton saw that Du Dian didn''t feel distressed and cared, so they were relieved a little and continued to feast on the wind.


    "Dian, where did your money come from..." Barry was about to ask when he suddenly saw other guests coming in from the tavern, he stopped, lowered his head, and quickly ate the food in front of him.


    Du Dian smiled slightly, and after a few people had almost eaten, he took them out of the tavern and found an uninhabited hillside nearby. After smelling that there was no one in the vicinity for two or three miles, he said to them: "You guys in the future. What do you plan to do?"


    The four of Barton and Joseph looked at each other, Joseph stammered: "I, I don''t know, I think, I can find some odd jobs to do, and I should be able to get some food."


    "Me too," Barry said.


    Du Di''an glanced at Barton and Kruen, and seeing their expressions were the same, he nodded immediately and said, "I will redeem you, of course, I won''t leave you alone. Now there are three paths for you to choose from. First, I am in business. There is a suite in the district, and there is a shortage of gardeners, gardeners, and domestic servants, you can take these positions, help me take care of the house, and take care of my adoptive parents by the way, of course, I will not treat you as servants, just in name."


    "A house in the business district?" Barton''s eyes widened, his face full of astonishment.


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    Du Dian nodded and said: "Yes, the second is that I will give each of you a sum of money. As for what you want to do in the future, it is up to you to choose, and I will not interfere. And the last point is to be my assistant and help me do things. ."


    "To be your assistant?" Barton and the others immediately moved.


    Du Di''an said seriously: "However, what I''m going to do is very dangerous, it will even cost you your life, and it''s a bit illegal."


    Several people were stunned, looked at each other, and hesitated.


    Barton kept his head down and listened, suddenly raising his head and saying to Du Di''an: "I choose the third way to help you do things! It''s just... my legs are not good, so I''m afraid I can''t help you."


    Du Dian glanced at him, nodded, and said, "Giving you such an opportunity, it is natural to value your ability, so don''t worry about it."


    "I, I''ll help you too." Joseph stammered: "If I didn''t have you, I would soon be sent to the mine. If I worked like Barton, I would die soon. No matter what you want me to do, I will listen to you!"


    Du Dian nodded slightly and said: "I want to explain, it will be very dangerous to follow me, this is a road of no return, you don''t have to repay in this way because I redeemed you, you don''t owe me anything, I just repay The care you gave me in the first place."


    Joseph was stunned, looked up at Kruen and Barry, thought about it, and said firmly: "I''m still willing to follow you, although it''s illegal, I believe that with Dean, your cleverness will not be so easy to be caught. Grab it. Besides, I make more money doing illegal things. I don¡¯t want to be a little poor anymore, I want to stand on the top, I want a lot of money!¡±


    Hearing his words, Cruden and Barry, who was still hesitating, couldn''t help shaking their heads, looked up and said resolutely: "We will join too!"


    Du Dian didn''t expect Joseph to have such a realization, smiled, and said: "Making money is just incidental. As long as you do it well, you will have more money than you can spend in the future." After speaking, he took out four gold coins from his pocket and said: "This is our current start-up capital. There will be new funds in a while. These four gold coins are given to you. I request that you find a remote place as soon as possible, the more remote the better, and then build a secret small factory. ."


    The four of Barton looked at the golden coins, their heartbeats quickened a little and looked at Du Di''an in disbelief. Kruen couldn''t help but said, "Aren''t you afraid that we will run away with the gold coins?"


    Du Dian glanced at him and said, "I trust you."


    Kruen pursed his lips slightly, and his eyes reddened.


    "At present, the money I have on hand is not enough, and there will be more money in a while, and there will be excess funds for you to study and study. As for your body, I will find a way to find out if there is any treatment. way." Du Di''an said.


    The four of them were shocked, and there was some hope in their eyes.


    "Now, you''d better go and change your outfits first, otherwise, with your current outfits, it is estimated that you will be robbed as soon as you take out the gold coins." Du Di''an smiled.


    The four of Joseph looked at each other and laughed.


    Du Di''an looked at the time, it was not early, and immediately said to the four: "If you want to contact me for anything, just leave a password in the square in front of the orphanage, and I will come over when I have time. Remember, pay attention to confidentiality when you act. You can''t reveal your identity."


    "We know." Kruen laughed.


    Du Dian looked at Barton and said, "I will find a way to help you recover your slave status as soon as possible, don''t worry."


    "I''m not worried," Barton said with a smile on his face.


    Du Dian smiled slightly and said goodbye to several people here.


    After leaving the hillside, Du Di''an hired a carriage and returned to the residential area. This return trip took more than an hour. The sky was already dark, and soon it was curfew time in the residential area.


    When Du Di''an came home, the Jules couple was busy with dinner.


    During dinner, the two asked about Du Di''an''s whereabouts during the day. Du Di''an casually said that he was wandering around, and the two didn''t think much about it. After all, in their opinion, Du Di''an is approaching marriage age and is a guard, so naturally, he has a little private space of his own.


    The next morning, Du Dian got up on time and went out after breakfast.


    "The alchemist base I saw last time, I don''t know if it has been replaced." Du Di was thinking about it and went to the secret base.

 Chapter 90: The Black Cross

    On the left side of Wall Street Road, in front of an ordinary alley, a handsome boy passed by holding a piece of black sesame bread. Suddenly, the bread in his hand fell to the ground. When the dust was collected, he didn''t pick it up for a while, and it didn''t matter if he didn''t pick it up. He hesitated before squatting on the bread.


    Pedestrians passing by on the street hurried to work, just glanced, without paying too much attention.


    The boy lowered his head and seemed to be distressed by the bread, but no one saw his nose twitching slightly.


    This boy is Du Di''an. His attention at the moment is all on the sense of smell, and he inhales gently and briefly so that the smell can flow to the olfactory cells on the upper part of the nose and make the senses more sensitive.


    There are various kinds of smells on the street, but tracking the smell is like a physical instinct, and it can be mastered without learning. Du Di''an focused his senses on the smell emanating from the hidden room in the alley. A vague outline of the secret room emerged.


    "Sulfur smell, yellow phosphorus smell... Someone? Three people? One of them smells a light scent, it should be a girl." Du Di was surprised, but he didn''t expect someone to be in this secret room at this moment. Are these alchemist apprentices every day? Are you doing experiments here?


    Du Di''an thought for a moment and transferred his sense of smell to the residential house on the street above the secret room, and immediately smelled a faint old gray smell inside. No one lived in it, and it seemed to be empty for a long time.


    "Under this empty house is the alchemy room... The owner of the empty house is either dead or the owner of this alchemy room." Du Di''an thought to himself, he picked up the bread, patted the dust on it, and went straight down the street Leaving, although captured by smell, he did not find anyone at the high-end positions of the buildings on both sides of the street, and no one should be especially guarding.


    Still, it''s prudent to do the full set.


    After he left this street, he came to a neighboring street, found a small tailor shop, and entered it immediately.


    A tailor apprentice boy greeted him, and said politely to Du Dian: "Guest, what do you need?"


    Du Di''an swept several finished clothes hanging in the store, but couldn''t find the style he needed, and immediately said: "Help me make a set of black spacious robes and an ordinary mask."


    "Mask?" The tailor apprentice boy gave him a puzzled look, but said nothing, "When do you want it?"


    "When will it be done?" Du Dian asked.


    "Just tonight."


    "Okay, I''ll get it this time tomorrow."


    "No problem, what material do you need, we have linen fiber, satin..."


    "Strong and ordinary fabrics will do." Du Di''an asked: "How much is the deposit?"


    The tailor apprentice boy thought for a moment and said, "If you want to be strong, thick flax fiber is the best. There are two kinds of seven copper coins in total. The deposit is half, and you will receive three."


    Du Dian immediately took out three copper coins and gave them to him, saying: "The robe should be a little bigger."


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    "Okay." The tailor apprentice boy agreed with a smile, took out a ruler to measure the body proportions for Du Di''an, and wrote a note to Du Di''an, saying, "Just come and pick it up tomorrow."


    Du Dian put away the note, left the tailor shop, and muttered, "The next thing is the tattoo."


    If you want to sneak into that stronghold, you must prove that you are an alchemist and the most credible way to prove it is to show your alchemy tattoo.


    However, this era is far from mastering the laser. Once the tattoo is on the body, it is difficult to wash off, and every time he returns from hunting outside the wall, his body will be checked to prevent the virus from being brought into the wall, which cannot be hidden at all. tattoo.


    He pondered for a moment, and finally decided to take a risk.


    ...


    ...


    An ink raw material factory in the eastern suburbs, like most factories, is located in a remote location, close to the radiation area.


    Du Di''an came here, and when blocked by the guard, he showed his guard medal and said, "I''m here to do business. By the way, I will routinely check your production environment."


    The two guards were a little stunned, looked at them repeatedly, and they confirmed that they were not mistaken. One of them immediately winked at the other, and then said to Du Di''an: "Wait a moment, I will inform you immediately."


    Du Dian nodded and stood at the door waiting.


    After a while, the previous doorman trotted out with a short and stout middle-aged man. The middle-aged man saw Du Dian from a distance and was stunned for a moment. He didn''t seem to expect such a young guard, who looked like a mature man. The child, but immediately put on a smile and said politely: "Hello, why didn''t you tell me in advance when you came to check? Isn''t our place under the control of Lord Crow all the time?"


    Du Dian waved his hand and said, "I just stopped by to have a look, mainly to find you some business. Do you have gall ink here?"


    The middle-aged man was relieved when he heard this, and said doubtfully: "Gallnut ink? This quantity is very small, and it has been discontinued. Now everyone uses carbon ink."


    "That''s good." Du Dian nodded and said, "Give me a bottle of gallnut ink raw material."


    "Uh..." The middle-aged man was suddenly choked, looked at him up and down, and said, "Just one bottle?"


    Du Di''an coughed lightly and was a little embarrassed. After all, this is a factory and not a store. However, it is difficult to go to the store to sell gall ink raw materials, so he can only come here.


    "How much?" Du Di''an asked the price directly, not giving him a chance to refuse.


    The middle-aged man was speechless, but he still maintained a polite attitude and said, "What kind of money are you talking about with me, just treat it as a gift for you."


    Seeing this, Du Di''an was also welcome, and said, "I''m short on time, so I need it now."


    "No problem." The middle-aged man glanced at him and said, "Is that all you need, no... anything else?"


    Du Dian smiled and said, "Just drop by."


    Only then did the middle-aged man breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that he was a false alarm, and said with a smile, "Okay, I''ll have someone pick it up for you." After speaking, he turned and left. After a while, a thin young man sent Du Di''an a bottle of pitch-black ink.


    Du Di''an can smell the ink inside without opening the cap. It is gall ink. This kind of ink was used on the wall in the early days. Later, after people learned to use coal, they made carbon ink. This kind of high-cost ink is expensive because of its high price. , Gradually fewer and fewer people bought.


    Du Di''an left with ink, went to the store to pick up a bottle of men''s perfume, took it home, and locked it in his small room.


    The smell of gall ink is much lighter than that of carbon ink, and carbon ink is often used by people, and the smell is more familiar, which is why Du Di''an took the trouble to buy gall ink.


    "It''s a pity that there is no activated carbon here, otherwise the smell in it will be eliminated." Du Di''an secretly said, he poured out part of the ink into a small bowl and then poured the lighter perfume he chose into some, and the smell Neutralized, smelled, and felt that the smell didn''t become weird, so I was relieved, and then stripped off my shirt, revealing a healthy wheat complexion body.


    Du Di''an looked down at the magic mark on his chest, and said secretly: "I don''t know if those alchemist apprentices recognize this magic mark, anyway, it''s better to hide it." Immediately, he put the ink on the quill pen and ran it along his chest. The blood-red magic mark in front was drawn, and the cold ink fell on the magic mark, smearing this blood vessel-like magic mark into pitch black.


    "This dagger scar should also be covered up, so as not to attract attention." Du Di''an drew the ink along the dagger''s scar. The scar was vertical, but the magic mark was horizontal. After painting, Du Di''an found two pens crossed together, which happens to be a black cross.

 Chapter 91: Mixing in

    the next day.


    Du Di''an came to the tailor shop, received the robe and mask, put on the robe, the size was just right, he put on the mask, and came to the alley of Wall Street, and suddenly smelled the smell of two people inside, more than yesterday One less person.


    "Sure enough, it''s here every day." Du Di''an secretly said, entered the alley and put on a mask, stretched out his hand to hold up the cloth that was smeared like a wall, and saw that there were piles of bricks inside, if ordinary people accidentally noticed this cloth, even if you open it, you will only see this wall, but Du Di''an knows that it is a secret room, so he can see the gap between these bricks at a glance.


    Du Di''an picked up a stone and tapped it twice.


    There is no reaction inside.


    Du Dian tapped twice again.


    At this time, Du Dian smelled the smell of the two people inside and approached, just behind this block of bricks. He waited for a while, but didn''t see them making a sound, and immediately beat twice, controlled his throat, and lowered his voice: "I am your companion, and I have no malicious intentions. I am also an alchemist, seeking to organize..."


    The two behind the bricks seemed to be thinking, but after a while, there was still no response.


    Du Di''an suddenly smelled a strange smell, he frowned slightly, and slowly pulled out one of the bricks.


    Whoosh!


    Just as the brick was pulled out, something was shot out of the gap.


    Du Di''an was prepared and avoided in time, but after the thing fell on the ground, it sputtered out, and a few drops fell on the edge of his robe. The black-dyed robe was corroded and turned white, it was sulfuric acid.


    Du Dian glanced at it, turned back to the brick, and continued: "I have no malicious intentions. If it was from the Holy See of Light, I would have notified the Knights of Light to arrest you. I am your companion."


    The two of them didn''t seem to expect that their sneak attack didn''t work. When they heard Du Dian''s words, the two also knew that the initiative was in Du Dian''s hands at this moment. If they were notified of the Holy See of Light, they would soon be surrounded and suppressed.


    "How can I trust you?" A female voice came from inside.


    Du Dian asked back: "How can you trust me?"


    There was a little silence inside, and the woman said, "Please show your alchemy tattoo."


    Du Di''an smiled bitterly: "Then let me in first, it''s too unsafe here, and it''s easy to attract attention after staying for a long time."


    Hearing this, the two of them seemed reasonable and slowly pulled the bricks out. The light inside was dim, but Du Di''an''s vision was not affected in the slightest. Judging from his stature, he was a child of his age, a boy and a girl, and the boy he had tracked down before was not there. At this moment, the girl was in charge of pulling away the bricks, while the boy was hiding in a darker place, holding a glass bottle in his hand that still had half a bottle of sulfuric acid in it.


    "Come in," the girl said.


    Du Dian nodded and jumped in. There was a staircase under the brick, and the place sealed by the brick was like a ventilation window.


    There was a pair of vigilant eyes in the boy''s mask, staring at Du Di''an, and said, "Now you can show your alchemy tattoo."


    Du Dian nodded slightly, raised his black robe, revealing the black cross tattoo on his chest, and said, "Can you see it?"


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    The girl took a closer look and said, "It''s ours, come with me."


    Hearing this, the boy breathed a sigh of relief, greeted Du Di''an, and followed behind the girl.


    Du Di''an followed them down the stairs and came to a secret room at the bottom. I saw that the secret room was very spacious, with many shelves inside, with all kinds of mineral powder or metal powder on it, and there were no animal remains, or eyeballs. As for the biological part, as he expected, they are all from the "Sage''s Stone" faction, intending to refine this magical stone.


    "Please come here." The girl came to a table and said.


    Du Di''an followed his words.


    "I want to look at your tattoo again." The girl said the dim light in the previous corridor made her not fully see it.


    Du Dian nodded, revealing the black cross on his chest.


    The girl and the boy approached, looked carefully, and confirmed that it was a black alchemy tattoo. She suddenly approached Du Di''an''s chest, sniffed lightly, and the warm breath exhaled from her nose made Du Di''an''s chest throb slightly.


    "Perfume smell?" The girl was a little puzzled, and after smelling the robe of Du Di''an''s arm, she couldn''t help but look up at Du Di''an and said, "You are a boy, how can you apply perfume?"


    Du Dian coughed dryly and said, "I''m used to it."


    The girl glanced at him strangely, but said nothing, and said, "How did you find us, we should hide it very secretly here, and the secret code is known only by our people, even if you are an alchemist, won''t recognize it."


    Du Di''an said truthfully: "I saw a man in the market with a hook tattoo on his wrist, and then followed him to find it."


    The girl and the boy looked at each other and said angrily, "This stupid ''mouse'' has told him a long time ago that the tattoo on such a prominent part of the wrist is simply courting death, and I don''t know how his teacher taught him in the first place!"


    The boy who was walking with his parents on a certain street at the moment suddenly sneezed two times in a row with a blank expression on his face.


    Du Dian said sincerely: "Can I join you? Do research together."


    The girl looked at him and said, "Don''t you have your circle? Didn''t your teacher teach you? Our circle rarely accepts other unfamiliar companions."


    "My teacher is dead." Du Di''an said with a sad expression: "Several companions who did research together before have also disbanded."


    The girl froze for a moment and whispered, "I''m sorry, I didn''t mean it."


    Du Dian shook his head slightly and said, "It''s all over."


    The girl thought about it and said, "Well, if you are alone, you can join, but you must not bring outsiders in. You also know that the more people there are, the easier it is to be exposed."


    Du Dian was full of surprise, and said, "I will keep it a secret."


    "Yeah." The girl nodded with a smile on her face, and said, "My name is ''Nightingale'', his name is ''Viper'', the mouse went shopping with his parents today, and he didn''t come, if you want to join us, you can afford one. codename."


    Du Dian couldn''t help but wonder and said: "Isn''t the code name granted when you join the Dark Holy See?"


    "Yeah, that''s the official code name, and it''s the status symbol of our alchemists." Nightingale nodded and said, "But we also need a code name to address each other. It''s impossible to use our real names. In case anyone gets arrested, What if you expose other people? Could it be that you used your real name in your previous circle?"


    Du Di''an continued: "No, it''s all replaced by one of the words in everyone''s name."


    "That''s also a code name." Nightingale said, "We''re using an animal instead, think about it."


    Du Di''an thought for a while and said, "Let''s call it a hound."


    "Hound?" Nightingale nodded and said, "Okay, I''ll call you a hound from now on."


    Du Dian nodded, looked around, and said, "Don''t you have a teacher to teach you?"


    Nightingale shook her head and said, "My teacher won''t come to a place like our apprentice alchemist. He is busy with his experiments."


    The boy named Viper smiled and said to Du Dian: "Nightingale is our teacher. She is the one who is about to hit the Meteorite Badge. By then, she will be the youngest one-star alchemist, isn''t she amazing?"


    Du Di''an looked at the girl in surprise. From the moment she came in, she felt that the girl had more power to speak. Sure enough, she was the leader in this small circle and said: "That''s amazing, I''ve only been in contact with you for a while, and I have to talk to you a lot. study."


    The voice under the mask of Nightingale was a little shy, and said: "How can he exaggerate what he said, there are too many smart people, I can''t be regarded as the youngest."


    "Anyway, I think you are very powerful." Viper said with a smile.


    Du Di''an looked at him and wondered how this person''s personality had anything to do with the "Poisonous Snake". This code name is a bit of a split personality.


    "Okay, it''s time for the experiment, do you still want to get the Meteorite Badge?" Nightingale waved.


    The poisonous snake laughed, came to another room next to it, and closed the door.


    Nightingale said to Du Dian: "We have limited rooms here, and there is a grocery room next to it. You can use that after cleaning it up. If you don''t understand anything, you can communicate with me at any time."

 Chapter 92: Alchemy Symbols

    Du Dian looked at the powder in some bottles and jars on the table next to her. These bottles and jars were labeled, but there was no text on the javelin, but all kinds of peculiar symbols were drawn, some were the sun, and some were the sun and the five-pointed star overlapping. , some are hooks, and so on.


    "What is this?" Du Dian asked.


    Nightingale saw the bottle he was pointing to, and said strangely, "Don''t you recognize this symbol?"


    Du Dian thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "I don''t know."


    "Don''t tell me you haven''t memorized the basic alchemy symbols yet?" Nightingale asked in surprise.


    It was the first time Du Dian heard the words "alchemy symbol", and he was slightly stunned. Fortunately, there was a mask to cover it, so that the other party did not notice the expression. He secretly said in his heart: "Alchemy symbol? The function of the symbol is usually used to mark something. , I see, this should be something similar to a mathematical symbol."


    This is not recorded in Rothyard''s Alchemy Notes. Du Di''an guessed that it was too elementary, so there was no meaning to record it, and immediately said: "Yeah, I haven''t memorized it yet, all my things have been left with my teacher. My teacher is dead, and the things have been seized by the goddamn Holy See, do you have a complete collection of alchemy symbols here, can I borrow them?"


    Nightingale looked at him suspiciously, but after hearing that Du Dian called "The Holy See of Light" a "damn", he dispelled his doubts, and pointed to a shelf next to him, where there was a thick book with a black cover, "There, Take it and see for yourself, but remember not to break it, I have this one."


    Du Dian nodded quickly, "Thank you very much."


    Picking up this book of alchemy symbols, Du Dian was just about to open it and take a look, only to hear Nightingale say: "Go to another place to read, such as a small warehouse, I''m going to experiment."


    Du Dian came over knowingly and came to the small warehouse she was referring to, which was a little messy, with tools for cleaning the alchemy room and some broken filters.


    Du Di''an didn''t care either, just sat there casually and flipped through the alchemy symbols.


    I saw a dazzling array of alchemy symbols displayed in rows, with text explanations below the symbols. Du Di''an soon saw the sun symbol he saw earlier. Among alchemists, this represents gold!


    "No wonder there is golden powder in the bottle, and the amount is very small." Du Di''an murmured and continued to read.


    Time passed without knowing it.


    Du Di''an was completely immersed in it, carrying these symbols with his heart. Through the explanation at the beginning, Du Di''an knew that this alchemy symbol originated from the astrological symbol of the fortune teller. With the decline of the fortune teller, the astrological symbol has gradually evolved into an alchemy symbol by the rising alchemist, and it has become a unique alchemical symbol system.


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    After the alchemist completes the experiment, the recorded content is usually a pile of alchemy symbols. If you are not an alchemist, you can''t understand it at all. Therefore, memorizing this book of alchemy symbols is the basic requirement of an alchemist. one!


    When Du Di''an was a third of the way down, he heard the voice of a nightingale from outside the warehouse door: "Is the hound there, it''s getting late, it''s getting dark, we''re going home, do you want to stay here all night?"


    Du Dian was stunned for a moment. He didn''t expect time to pass so quickly. He immediately closed the book and opened the door. Seeing Nightingale and the poisonous snake standing at the door, he said, "I''m going back too, let''s go together."


    "That''s fine." Nightingale nodded.


    The poisonous snake glanced at the book in Du Dian''s hand and smiled: "When Nightingale told me, I still didn''t believe it, I didn''t expect you to know this by heart, tsk tsk, you are an apprentice among apprentices, um, you should be called an apprentice, haha"


    When Du Di''an heard his joke, he smiled slightly and said, "I have a poor memory, and my back is slow."


    "I think you love to be lazy." The viper said in a tone of "I understand you": "At the beginning, I had a headache when I carried this, and I tried all kinds of excuses to escape, but in the end, my teacher forced me personally, I just The one who will memorize it is Nightingale, who has a smart mind. I heard that it took only about a week to memorize this one, so what a shame for me who has memorized it for half a year!"


    Nightingale smiled and said, "How can you say it so exaggeratedly? I didn''t know it well for a week, and it took half a month to fully memorize it."


    "That''s also very powerful." Viper said sadly.


    Du Dian put the book back in place and said, "Are you coming tomorrow?"


    "Of course." Viper said without even thinking about it.


    Nightingale shook her head and said, "I''ll see the situation. If there''s something wrong, I won''t come. If there''s nothing wrong, I''ll come over."


    Du Dian nodded and said, "I''ll come over tomorrow too."


    "Okay, it''s getting late, let''s go back." Nightingale looked at Du Dian and the poisonous snake and said, "Which one of you will go first?"


    "I''ll go first." The poisonous snake was not polite, waved to Du Dian, came to the corridor outside the hidden wall, and climbed out.


    "We''ll go out in a few minutes," Nightingale said.


    Du Di''an nodded, knowing that she was worried that she would go out too much at one time, which would easily attract attention, and if she left one after another, everyone had time to sort out their masks.


    After a while, Du Di''an left the second. He climbed into the alley and saw that no one was paying attention to the street at the entrance of the alley, so he put away his mask, but he still wore a mask on his face, covering most of his face, and wearing mask on the street. It is not an alternative, and most of them will be considered by others to have a disease, and no one wants to get too close.


    Just as Du Di''an was about to go home along the shortcut, he suddenly smelled a familiar smell, and couldn''t help but be startled, a ray of light flashed in his eyes, turned, and walked towards the other side of the street, walking with his head down.


    Not long after Du Di''an left, a little boy appeared at the entrance of the alley, frowned and looked at Du Di''an''s departure direction, and said to himself a little angrily: "I''m still wearing a mask, so be careful!" Saying, Taking a deep look in that direction, he turned and left in the other direction.


    Not long after he left, at the corner of the street, Du Di''an appeared sideways, looking at the back, frowning slightly, I didn''t expect that the poisonous snake did not leave after coming out ahead of time, but hid beside him, probably to see his true nature. face.


    "It seems that we can''t take it lightly in the future." Du Di''an secretly said, and at the same time firmly remembered the other party''s face, this is a fatal handle of the other party in his hands!


    Du Di''an tilted his head to look at the alley. It was estimated that Nightingale was about to come out at the moment. He thought about it and gave up the chance to peek at her real face. After all, she didn''t treat herself like this.


    Turning around and leaving, Du Dian went around a few streets to make sure there was no familiar smell around and came to the corner of a street. When there was no one, he quickly took off his black robe and rolled it up, then quickly left here and took a detour home.

 Chapter 93: New Research

    On the second day, Du Di''an came to this secret alchemy room again. When he came, the poisonous snake and the ''rat'' he tracked earlier were also there. The boy code-named Rat should have heard about Du Di''an from Viper. As soon as he saw Du Di''an, he asked nervously: "Hound, right, you, you followed me here, so you...have seen me?"


    Du Di Anxin thought that there was no way to deceive, and nodded: "I have seen it, I will keep it a secret."


    The mouse was full of frustration and said, "It''s exposed again."


    The poisonous snake said angrily: "Who asked you to engrave the tattoo on your wrist, I see, you will be purified by the light sooner or later, and then don''t betray us."


    "I won''t betray you." The mouse said with a sullen face: "My family is engaged to me, and I want to quit alchemy now. Anyway, at my level, it''s hard to achieve anything, at most, I can get a Meteorite badge."


    The viper shrugged and said, "If you want to quit, remember to peel off the tattoo."


    "I''ve been hesitating because I''m afraid of pain." The mouse said helplessly.


    Du Dian was speechless, looked at Nightingale''s alchemy room, and asked, "Is she not coming today?"


    "I haven''t come at this time, I guess it won''t come." The poisonous snake said casually.


    Du Di''an said: "Can I borrow her alchemy symbol book to read?"


    "This is optional, but it''s best not to touch her other alchemy materials."


    Du Dian nodded, and when they were busy with experiments, he picked up Nightingale''s alchemy symbol book and continued to memorize it silently. Although he has a super chip, the modern chemical system stored in it is much more advanced and perfect than the alchemy system of this era, but ancient does not mean backwardness. There are still many advantages to this alchemy system worth learning. After all, this is chemistry. The prototype ancestor.


    Du Dian first revisited what he memorized yesterday, and then continued to silence the alchemy symbol behind him.


    Another day passed.


    Du Di''an carried about two-thirds of his back. At dusk, he left the alchemy room with the poisonous snake and the mouse. This time, the poisonous snake was still the first to leave. Newcomers do not worry about them.


    After Du Di''an came outside, he saw the poisonous snake hiding next to him again and wanted to peep at him. He ignored it and circled the road a few times in the direction of yesterday and returned home.


    On the third day, Du Dian continued to come to the alchemy room. Today, Nightingale was also there. He borrowed the alchemy book and continued to memorize it silently. Before leaving at night, he finally memorized the whole book and could already understand the experiments of Nightingale and others.


    From the symbols carved on the alchemy table alone, Du Dian could roughly guess what experiment they were going to do. When returning the book, he quickly glanced at Nightingale''s alchemy table and immediately saw a sun symbol, two water drop symbols, and a spoon symbol. , I couldn''t help but be surprised. This Nightingale''s ambition is quite big, and he studied gold directly. Could it be that he wanted to directly create Sage''s Stone?


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    Fourth day.


    Du Dian came to the alchemy den as usual. Today, the poisonous snake was not there. Nightingale and the mouse were busy with each other. Occasionally, the mouse would come out to ask Nightingale some questions. Her alchemy level here seems to be the highest.


    "Didn''t you read it today?" Nightingale said strangely when she saw that Du Dian didn''t borrow books from her.


    Du Dian shook his head and said, "Don''t look at it."


    "No need?" Nightingale was stunned: "What do you mean, you have already memorized it?"


    "Well." Du Dian nodded slightly and said, "I want to start learning to do experiments."


    Nightingale understood and smiled: "It seems that you have memorized a lot before, I said, how could you be able to do experiments without even memorizing alchemy symbols, if you want to do experiments, you have to buy the materials yourself, today I can lend you some first, provided I have extra, but you have to pay me back tomorrow."


    "Thank you!" Du Di was grateful, looked up and swept the raw materials on her shelf, and suddenly saw several raw materials for making black powder. These raw materials are also commonly used in other alchemy experiments. It was first invented by the motherland of China and has had a huge impact on the whole world. It originated from alchemy, and alchemy is equivalent to eastern alchemy, which is earlier and more advanced than the west.


    "This yellow phosphorus is my point." Du Di''an pointed to one of the bottles. He naturally did not intend to make black powder here. Although in modern times, this is not a technology, it is a very old technology, but it is explosive in this era. alchemy and it can really "explode"...


    Nightingale glanced at it, nodded, and said, "Okay, it just so happens that I have more than one."


    Du Dian asked for some more raw materials such as gum and red scales and then cleaned out the small warehouse. At this time, he suddenly found a problem... There is no alchemy platform!


    He was a little dumbfounded, this is not the manufacture of black powder, there is already a complete formula, just need to mix the raw materials. He intends to study matches. The last time he detonated a black fire, he felt that ignition was a problem. The fire sickle commonly used in the world is too inconvenient to light. It''s time to die.


    Du Dian found Nightingale again and asked curiously, "Where did your alchemy platform come from?" No one dared to sell this thing on the market.


    Nightingale was preparing the ingredients, and when she saw Du Dian looking for it, she was stunned for a moment, and then she realized: "I forgot to tell you this, so let''s go look for the mouse to see if he is free at night. If he is free, I will take you with me. Go to the underground market to buy one, but the price is a bit expensive, you''d better prepare more money, at least two silver coins or more."


    "Underground market?" Du Dian was stunned and suddenly thought that Rosyard''s notes also seemed to mention this place. It was a market for underground transactions in the Dark Holy See, and it had strongholds in various places.


    Immediately, Du Di''an found the mouse and said it again.


    The mouse didn''t think much about it, and agreed, and took him there at night.


    Du Dian had nothing to do for a while, so he said hello to Nightingale and left the alchemy den, thinking that three days had passed, Barton and the others did not know how they were going and immediately hired a carriage to go to the slum.


    Coming to a dilapidated square agreed upon in advance, Du Dian quickly found the code left by Barton and others, with a smile on his face, followed the code all the way, and soon found a small remote shack, which is close to the slums refugee settlements.


    Just before Du Di''an came to the shack, in a shack opposite the shack, he heard Patton''s surprised voice.


    Du Di''an looked at it in amazement but saw that the low shack was opened, and Barton and others came over.


    "We exposed the secret code, so we rented another one on the opposite side." Barton looked at Du Dian''s expression and explained angrily.


    Du Dian was stunned for a while, and said with a smile: "You guys are quite thoughtful." Although he knew that the possibility of the password being exposed was extremely low, Du Dian was still very happy to see them being so cautious.

 Chapter 94: Alloy Experiment

    Seeing that he didn''t care about his "wasted money", Barton breathed a sigh of relief and said, "We''ve searched everywhere for the past few days, but couldn''t find a suitable one. Today Klein went out to look for it again, and he hasn''t come back."


    Du Dian nodded, seeing how many of them were there and was quite happy in his heart. For the first time, he gave each of them a gold coin. He was holding a bit of a testing mentality in his heart. After all, a gold coin is extremely valuable, and it can even make ordinary The poor do not hesitate to rob and kill! However, Barton and the others did not leave with this gold coin privately, which shows that they are determined to follow their affairs.


    Moreover, being able to see money without turning a blind eye is the material for doing big things, which makes Du Di''an very satisfied.


    "Kruen has been going for a long time today, will he not encounter any trouble?" Barry looked at the time and said worriedly.


    Barton glanced at his expression, his face changed slightly, and said categorically: "No, he is very smart."


    Joseph nodded and said, "Maybe we have found a place."


    Du Di''an looked at the surrounding environment and said, "You can find a better place to live without saving too much money. You can earn it without me."


    "It''s good here." Barton smiled. "Compared to when I was a miner, it''s much better here. At least the sun can be seen occasionally, and the people living here are poor, so they won''t be targeted."


    Seeing this, Du Di''an didn''t say anything more. Although Barton and the others were all orphans, the orphanage would teach them some basic knowledge, especially how to protect themselves and not be disgusted by others.


    Although physically disabled, the minds of Barton and the others are extremely sharp, not inferior to those of able-bodied people, and even more shrewd and cautious than theirs.


    Du Di''an followed them into the shack. The area inside was very small. A few people chatted inside for a while. Klein came back from the outside, carrying three stacks of oil-paper-wrapped things, and said as soon as he entered the door: "Bring you food back. , are you starving..." Halfway through, when he saw Du Dian, he was stunned.


    Barton continued: "Have you found the abandoned factory?"


    Knowing that he was about to get down to business, Klein put his things down, shook his head, and said, "I didn''t find a suitable one. There are a few factories to rent, but the place is not remote enough, and the price is a bit high."


    Barton was a little disappointed and looked at Du Dian apologetically.


    Du Dian waved his hand and said: "This is not in a hurry, you eat first, find the place slowly, it must be remote and hidden, and the surrounding environment should be open." After all, the slum is very vast, and it is very difficult to find a suitable place. No matter how clever Barton and the others are, they have never seen anything in the world. This time, the main purpose is to train them.


    Although they heard Du Di''an say this, Barton and others were still a little apologetic.


    After chatting with a few people for a while, Du Dian looked at the time, got up to say goodbye, took the carriage back to the residential area and came to the alchemy den.


    Seeing Du Dian returning, Nightingale didn''t say anything and continued to work on her experiments.


    Du Dian glanced at the less gold powder on her table, and asked casually, "Are you going to make the ''Sage''s Stone'' directly?"


    Seeing that Du Dian noticed this, Yeying didn''t hide it deliberately, and shook his head: "How is it possible, the Sage''s Stone is our ultimate goal, even the alchemist master of the five-star badge has not made it, how can I study it, I  just want to see the compatibility of gold and see if it can be used to make precious metals by mixing other metals with gold.¡±


    "Alloy?" Du Dian was stunned.


    Nightingale was a little surprised, "Alloy? It''s a good name. The name of my experiment is called Alloy Experiment, um, don''t you mind?"


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    Du Di''an coughed lightly and said, "It''s just a trivial matter, it''s too outlandish to say anything, but are you planning to use this alloy experiment to impact the meteorite badge?"


    "Well, if it''s done as I imagined, I should be able to get it." Nightingale nodded vigorously.


    Du Di''s heart moved. If we talk about alloy materials, the most famous aluminum alloy in the old times was naturally aluminum alloy, but aluminum alloy was not mixed with gold, and gold was too rare, except that other metal elements would be added to gold jewelry to synthesize it. There are very few gold composite materials for other purposes, far less widely than aluminum alloys, and aluminum alloys are used in many heavy industrial products.


    "However, to make aluminum alloys, the metal needs to be electrolyzed, and electricity is required first." Du Di''an felt a little helpless, this is the limitation of tools.


    Nightingale glanced at Du Dian and said, "What is the direction of your experiment, is it convenient for communication?"


    "Me?" Du Dian thought about it and said, "I''m studying "electricity". "


    "Electricity?" Nightingale was stunned for a moment, looked at him, and said, "This is a bit difficult, right? My teacher is still trying to figure it out. Don''t you plan to start with basic physics materials?"


    Seeing her persuasive appearance, Du Di''an knew that she was worried that she was too ambitious. This is also a common problem for most alchemists. Some beginners even want to directly create the ultimate alchemy treasure such as "Sage''s Stone", which is completely whimsical.


    However, he is not "the ignorant and fearless", but he dislikes available research, and what he wants to make needs the support of electricity, so "electricity" has become the first problem he has to solve.


    Moreover, the post-modern world also proves that the penetration and help of electricity to human beings is extremely deep. If there is no electricity, the entire human society will be paralyzed. big meaning.


    Du Dian shook his head, expressing his insistence on his experiment.


    Seeing this, Nightingale didn''t say anything more. After all, interfering with other people''s experiments was not a good thing.


    At this time, the mouse was also busy, seeing Du Dian and Nightingale, and said, "What are you talking about?"


    "The problem of the experiment," Nightingale said casually.


    The mouse didn''t ask much and said to Du Di''an: "Are you ready, let me take you to the market, go back early, do you have enough money?"


    "It should be enough." Du Di''an said.


    The mouse nodded and said, "We will meet at No. 23 West Germany Street. Do you know where it is? If you don''t know, ask someone."


    "Okay." Du Dian nodded.


    The two left immediately.


    Du Di''an had never heard of this place name, so he directly hired a carriage to go there. Anyway, the carriage was charged according to the length of the road, and he could still afford it for a few copper coins. Everything was mainly about efficiency.


    West Germany Street is relatively remote. There are no shops on the street, only residential houses. As a result, there are no people here. The cold wind blows on the street, which is quite depressing.


    Du Di''an got off the carriage and covered his head with a robe. After paying the fare, he immediately put on a mask and came to the small building with the number "23". He saw that this small building seemed to have been uninhabited for a long time, and the lawn was full. No one cleans the fallen leaves.


    But Du Di''an smelled it at once, this small building here three or four human odors.


    Suddenly, one of the smells disappeared.


    Du Di''an was stunned, the smell seemed to disappear out of thin air and suddenly faded, as if the owner of the smell suddenly left here.


    He was puzzled, but he did not enter the small building rashly but waited near the door.


    It didn''t take long for the mouse to come over wearing a mask, looking at Du Dian panting, and said, "Why did you come so early."


    Du Di''an knew at a glance that he should have come over. He was a little surprised and moved, and said, "I''ll let you go all the way."


    The mouse waved his hand and said, "Small things are all companions, let''s go, I''ll take you in." After finishing speaking, he first came to the small building and knocked gently on the door.


    Du Di''an noticed that he knocked on the door with a certain frequency, three heavy and two light, two slow and three fast.


    Shortly after knocking, the door opened, and a figure shrouded in a black robe opened the door, wearing a snow-white mask, looked at the two of them indifferently, and said, "Come in."


    The mouse went in first, and Du Di''an followed.


    After the two came in, the tall figure said indifferently, "Please show your tattoos."


    The mouse raised his wrist, revealing the black hook tattoo.


    Du Di''an peeled off the clothes on his chest, revealing the black cross tattoo. At this time, he suddenly felt that the tattooed part of the mouse also has some advantages, that is, it is more convenient to verify the identity. If the tattoo is on a special ** part of the body, although it is not easy to expose, it is also troublesome for peers to verify each other. Fortunately, after getting the meteorite badge, just show the badge.


    The tall figure glanced at it, said nothing, turned around and brought the two to the small building, took out a bottle from his arms, filled with orange-yellow water, and said, "Help you to eliminate the smell first, so as not to be noticed by the group of hounds. Here." After speaking, he poured the orange water into his mouth and sprayed it towards Du Di''an and the mouse head-on, splashing all over.


    Du Di''an suddenly smelled that the smell of himself and the mouse had faded.


    "Go in." The tall figure pointed inward.


    There was a door, and two figures in front of the door shrouded in robes opened the door and signaled for the two to enter.

 Chapter 95: Experiment report

    Behind the door is a basement passage, which is dark and deep, and many faint human odors wafting from it, which surprised Du Di''an. I didn''t expect this underground market to be so lively. I can tell that there are hundreds of people from these smells alone, although This special potion can mask the smell, it cannot completely eradicate it.


    "Follow me." The mouse was very familiar with this place and led the way.


    Du Dian followed behind him.


    Going down the dark steps, the copper lamps on the wall illuminated, and the shadows of the two were pulled extremely long.


    Under the spiral steps is a four-to-five-meter long corridor, guarded by black robes, and at the end of the corridor is a gate. When Du Di''an and the two came to the door, the black-robed guards on both sides opened the door, and a mysterious and novel dark underground market was presented in front of the two of them.


    This is a huge underground square, dimly lit, and the lights on the surrounding walls are lit up like beating spirits. There are all kinds of stalls everywhere, as well as large-scale simple shops, all kinds of novel things, and A dazzling array of free sales.


    Du Di''an was a little surprised. He didn''t expect the scale of this underground market to be so large. You must know that the people who can enter this underground market are all alchemists or employees of the Dark Holy See such as potions, and there are only business owners who sell things in front of them. There are already more than 100 people. As for the customers who buy things, they are all over the square. Visually, there are at least 300 people gathered here.


    It was the first time for Du Di''an to see so many "evil people" from the Dark Holy See at the same time, and he felt a bit strange in his heart. At this time, the mouse pointed in one direction and said, "There is an alchemy platform there, come with me."


    Du Dian followed behind him and looked down there. Although the surrounding light was dim, he could see clearly from afar. This is a simple shop built on the square, which is slightly larger than the book stand next to it. The shop On the left are rows of alchemy tables, on the right are all kinds of bottles and jars, as well as strange things. He even saw a pitch-black sharp claw, and he didn''t know it was cut off from something.


    "Boss!" The mouse called to the shop owner, "Let''s take a look at the alchemy platform."


    The shop owner was tall and wore a dark red mask. He glanced at him and Du Dian. Judging from their height and voice, he knew that they were two children, most of whom were alchemist apprentices or potions apprentices, and he was too lazy to say, "Myself Look, pick and pay."


    The mouse was used to it. He pointed to an alchemy platform made of birch and stone, and said, "Hound, what do you think of this?"


    Du Dian looked at it and said, "Are these prices different?"


    "Of course." The mouse is very experienced and said: "This is the cheapest, only two silver coins are enough for our junior apprentices. Of course, if you are rich, you can also buy high-end ones, such as this one. Four silver coins, there is a storage slot, which is more convenient, and has been optimized in both water and fire, and this, seven silver coins..."


    He pointed in rows, his fingers landed on the top alchemy table, and said, "That''s amazing, you need two gold coins, there are automatic fire hydrants in it, and it can automatically clean the pot ashes, and there are two refining Chi, doing some complex labs, this is essential."


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    Du Dian glanced at it, it seemed to be made of brass, and the material and appearance were more atmospheric and stable than the previous ones. However, two gold coins are fine. He only has one more gold coin on him now, but he can''t spend it all.


    "That''s it." Du Dian pointed to two silver coins.


    The shop owner glanced at him, as if he had expected it long ago, and said, "Pay, report the address, and if it is in a residential area, I will deliver it to you at the latest tomorrow night."


    "And help us deliver?" Du Dian was a little surprised.


    The mouse said with a smile: "Of course, we can''t handle such a big guy, and it''s too easy to expose, they have hidden transportation channels, and they can be transported without knowing it, even if you are a noble, you can also give You ship it, of course, you have to cooperate."


    Du Di was secretly shocked, the power of this dark church penetrated so deeply?


    At this time, the mouse suddenly grabbed Du Di''an, pulled him aside, and said, "Let''s go."


    Du Dian was stunned for a moment, followed his line of sight, and suddenly saw two figures coming from behind, a man and a woman, wearing a crow mask, came to the store, on their shoulders, all wearing dark gold The hexagonal badge is the meteorite badge!


    "Official alchemist!" Du Di''an immediately knew the reason why the mouse hurriedly moved away. Both of them were official alchemists, especially the tall figure who wore the meteor badge with three small suns engraved on it, which was a three-star alchemist!


    From Rothyard''s notes, Du Di''an learned about the division of some alchemists, from apprentices to five-star alchemists, each increase of one star requires a lot of alchemy points and often requires the submission of several experimental results to accumulate.


    And this three-star alchemist is equivalent to the Great Bright Knight in the Holy See of Light. This is the existence of the knights second only to the knight commander, and the status is extremely high. Even the great nobles like the Mel family should be treated politely...


    "Boss, do you have a good alchemy table?" At this moment, the three-star alchemist said to the shop owner, his voice was low and hoarse, apparently deliberately lowering his voice.


    The shop owner saw the meteorite badges on their shoulders, his eyes narrowed, and he hurried forward: "Yes, a new batch of new ones just came out, and they were cast by Master Luo himself. His "War Craftsman" level will keep you satisfied. This is it. "Point to the top alchemy table.


    The three-star alchemist glanced at it, turned his head to the slightly graceful figure in the robe, and said, "What do you think?"


    This woman''s meteorite badge is two suns, and she can be regarded as the No. 1 big man. She glanced at it and shook her head: "Too bad, there are not enough decomposition pools, and there is no thermal insulation pool."


    "Yes." The tall figure pondered for a while, and said, "Then let''s look for it again."


    "Forget it." The woman sighed and said, "This market should be the only one for sale. My experiment report has been submitted, and I will receive a call from above soon, so I will use this market first. Just a moment."


    The tall figure hesitated for a moment, then said helplessly, "Okay."


    The two paid immediately and bought it from the shop owner.


    Du Dian and the mouse watched them leave, and then they looked back.


    The mouse sighed with emotion: "We can''t afford it, and they still think it''s bad. Sure enough, we''ve been exposed to too little and too little, and alchemy is too profound. Unfortunately, they didn''t talk much, otherwise, they might be inspired by their conversations. ."


    Du Di''an said: "She just said that the experiment report was submitted, did she mean to submit it to the Dark Holy See? Why not wait for the experiment to be completed and submit the experimental results directly?"


    The mouse shrugged and said: "I want to get alchemy points early, there are many alchemists who worry that their experiments will be researched in advance by others, so they submit their ideas first. If the ratings are valuable, they will also be converted into corresponding ones. Alchemy points. Of course, there is another possibility, that is, some people suddenly have inspiration for other experiments, but they are busy with the experiments in their hands and have no energy to do them, or they are too lazy to collect those materials to do them. Submit the experimental report or experimental creative conjecture calculated by yourself, and if the above is verified to be feasible, alchemy points will be awarded."

 Chapter 96: Talent

    Chapter 96: Talent


    "This is a good way!" Du Di''an''s eyes brightened slightly. When it comes to experimental conjectures, he considers himself second, and believes that no one dares to say first! After all, he is someone who has seen the modern world, and any modern technological product such as airplanes, cannons, cars, etc., can become experimental conjectures!


    Moreover, these conjectures can be established 100%!


    However, limited to the current industrial level, it cannot be produced, and whether it can be recognized is a problem.


    "It''s not as simple as you think." The mouse noticed the change in expression on Du Di''an''s face, shook his head and smiled, and said: "The submitted experimental conjecture requires a complete derivation process, not just a concept, but also relatively complete alchemy. Formula, after all, if the alchemy formulas are all wrong, this conjecture is naturally just an empty idea, just like our illusory fantasy, although with the improvement of alchemy, the magical things in our hearts may one day become reality, There is no actual theoretical support at the moment, it is just an unrealistic conjecture after all.¡±


    Du Di''an nodded. He naturally knew this. His father often said that the scientific pursuit of truth requires a rigorous attitude and a whimsical heart. "Experimental conjecture" is based on the premise of "experiment", not pure fantasy, even if it is an old one. All kinds of magical things in the science fiction of the times are also based on certain scientific theories, rather than fantasies.


    However, novels are just stories after all, mainly based on fantasy, and can not be regarded as "experimental conjectures", because the creators have not conducted relevant experiments.


    It can be seen that it is not easy to submit a rigorous and qualified experimental conjecture.


    Despite this, Du Di''an is still very excited. It is difficult for others, but for him, it is very simple. Just copy the content of the super chip. After all, it is full of genuine technical formulas.


    However, the premise of all this is still electricity.


    Du Di''an became more and more urgent.


    At this time, the mouse saw that it was not early, and took Du Di''an to look in front of other stalls. After finding nothing helpful for his experiment, he left the dark underground market with Du Di''an.


    It was getting dark outside, a gray radiant cloud enveloped the sky, obscuring the moonlight, and it was approaching curfew time.


    Du Dian and the mouse parted ways and went home.


    In the blink of an eye, three more days passed.


    After the alchemy platform was transported to the alchemy den, Du Dian began to study the production of yellow phosphorus matches. After three consecutive days of experiments, he gained a lot and mastered the initial manufacturing method. Matches are not difficult, just like black powder, the formula is very simple, but the birth of black powder in the early days was completely obtained from the accidental frying furnace of alchemists. Before that, no one expected the combination of materials. Together they will explode.


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    Many great inventions are born by coincidence.


    Three days passed, and it was the day when Du Dian went to the Hunter headquarters to report.


    Jula and his wife have not been dismissed from their jobs in the residential area. They still live here temporarily. They did not go to the commercial area with Du Di''an. They are not in a hurry. After all, they have been rooted here for many years, from their parents to their generation. Many acquaintances need to spend time managing.


    Da da da!


    Du Di''an took the consortium''s carriage to a remote suburb in the business district.


    Surrounded by mountains on all sides, several secluded castles stood silently, and the carriage stopped in front of one of the castles.


    Du Di''an got out of the car and looked at the several ancient castles and the gloomy environment in front of him. He didn''t expect that the Hunter Headquarters was such a place. The atmosphere was so gloomy, that it was suitable for hunters who often lived outside the walls.


    "Please." The coachman jumped out of the carriage and respectfully said to Du Di''an.


    Du Di''an walked behind him.


    The two came to an ancient castle on the hillside, the door of the castle opened gently, and a young man in a black suit came out, looked at Du Di''an with a smile, and said, "You are the newcomer ''Du Di''an'' who came to report?"


    "Yes."


    "Come with me." The young man in the black suit turned and entered the castle. After Du Di''an entered, the door of the castle slowly closed.


    Follow the gravel path to the front hall of the castle. The light inside is dim. There is a woman''s oil painting on the wall. I was a little surprised to see it, and I was a little curious in my heart, but I didn''t ask much.


    "Your identity has been registered for you before. From the moment you come today, you will perform your duties as a hunter of the Mellon Consortium, with the highest goal of safeguarding the interests of the consortium, you know?" The young man in a black suit said to Du Dean Road.


    "I know." Du Di''an glanced at his shoulders and didn''t see the Hunter Medal, and asked, "Who are you?"


    The young man in the black suit noticed Du Dian''s gaze, smiled slightly and said: "I am the assistant instructor of the apprentice hunter. By the way, although you have magic marks, you are still an apprentice hunter, and even with other excellent apprentices. Compared with the hunters, you are not as strong as theirs, so from today, you will be trained by the consortium."


    "Training of the consortium?" Du Dian wondered, "Isn''t it the Hunter School?"


    The young man in the black suit smiled and said, "I heard about you. Originally, the consortium planned to arrange for you to go to the Hunter''s School for training, but you have a magic marker and your physical fitness is higher than others. The Hunter''s School is a Unified training, it is impossible to give you double standards alone, and the consortium does not have such great energy to make them sell their love, so you can''t enter the hunter school now, you can only accept the training of the consortium."


    "However, don''t worry, the training content of the consortium is basically copied from the Hunter School, which is roughly the same, and you should have already thought about your future career, you only need to do special training for your job."


    "Of course, you still need to know some of the specialties of other positions, and you can be more tacit when going out for hunting in the future."


    When Du Di''an saw this, he had nothing to say. Since the above was all set, he could only do it.


    "What occupation did you choose?"


    "hunter."


    "Long-range output, the consortium is short of hunters at present, but there are not many people with archer bow talent, I hope your talent in this area is good, otherwise it will be difficult to reach the peak just by interest." The young man in the black suit said.


    Hearing what he said, Du Dian couldn''t help but feel a drum in his heart when he thought of his previous shooting results.


    "Let''s test your talents first." The young man in the black suit smiled slightly and said, "Come with me to the training ground." He pushed open the door of the inner hall of the front hall, and behind it was an extremely wide open space. Various training props, such as archery targets, wooden figures, rocking horses, and a cage full of sharp swords made Du Di''an sweat a little.


    "Since you chose a hunter, try your archery talent first." The young man in a black suit stood in front of the arrow target and beckoned to Du Dian, signaling him to come over.

 Chapter 97: Two items

    Du Dian followed his words and came to the front of the target.


    "Here, take a good look at some arrows." The young man took out a black bow and quiver from the shelf next to him and encouraged him.


    Du Dian reached out and took it, only to feel that the weight was slightly lighter than the bow and arrow of the hunter at the beginning, but for most scavengers, it was still extremely heavy, so he immediately put on the quiver and took out a common arrow to catch, stretch the strings by hand, and aim at the distant target.


    The target was 30 meters away from the visual observation, and with a swoosh, the sharp arrow flew away, nailing it deeply on the target, but it didn''t hit the red heart, and it deviates by one and a half circles.


    "It''s pretty good, have you practiced before?" The young man glanced at it and asked in surprise.


    Du Dian nodded and said, "I have practiced for a few days."


    "Just a few days..." The young man nodded slightly, handed out a black bandage, and said, "Blindfold your eyes and shoot an arrow to see."


    Du Dian nodded, blindfolded, and drew the bow again, searching for the approximate location of the previous target in his mind. Although he could smell the faint odor emanating from the target with his sense of smell, he did not rely on the help of his sense of smell and wanted to see Do you have any talent as a shooter?


    Whoosh!


    Arrows shot out quickly.


    With an indulgent sound, he nailed it to the target.


    Hearing the sound of the target, Du Di''an pulled down the black belt and looked around. The position was similar to that of the previous shot, and the deviation was not large.


    "It seems that you are quite talented as a shooter." A smile appeared on the young man''s face, and he said, "Although your physique is relatively high, it is extremely rare to have such a result after only a few days of practice. If you work hard, you may have a chance. Become the second hunter in the consortium, the mid-level hunter."


    Du Dian was surprised: "Is there only one hunter in the consortium who has reached the intermediate level?"


    "Well, there are eight mid-level hunters in the consortium, two knights, three warriors, two thieves, and one hunter." The young man smiled and said, "There are fewer hunters, mainly because the hunters'' combat ability is too high. Poor, if there is no one to help contain them, it will be difficult to hunt the prey, too much reliance on the team, and the skills of the hunters are relatively difficult, which is also the reason for the scarcity of intermediate hunters."


    "The hunter''s combat ability is poor?" Du Dian couldn''t help but glance at him, and he chose the hunter profession because of his combat ability. In his opinion, this is the strongest single-soldier profession!


    However, hunter skills are more difficult, he agrees.


    After all, warriors and knights often fight monsters on the front line, and their fighting ability improves very quickly, while hunters are only responsible for repeated archery in the back, and they can gain very little insight. They can only rely on "practice makes perfect".


    "Try the talents of other occupations again." The youth took Du Dian to the second-line drawing area next to it. Here are a few wooden figures. On the shelves next to them are placed various swords, iron whips, hammers, and other weapons. But there is no long spear, the spear is the exclusive symbol of the knight.


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    "Attack the wooden man, smash it, you can see what kind of weapon is easy to use, and use whatever weapon." The young man smiled.


    Du Di''an nodded, picked up the long sword first, came to a wooden man, and chopped it in every way he could think of.


    Slashing multiple times in a row made him feel awkward and uncomfortable, and the blade would slip if he used too much force.


    Du Dian immediately knew that the long sword was not suitable for him, and immediately replaced it with a short sword.


    Compared with the long sword, the short sword is much easier to handle, longer than the dagger, and as powerful as a dagger, making him addicted to it, and he does not feel tired when he chops continuously.


    Next are other weapons, iron whips, hammers, war knives... Du Dian tried one by one and finally felt that he was more comfortable with short swords and war knives. The youth also gave this evaluation based on his achievements.


    "Your warrior talent is not bad, but it''s still better as a hunter. Let''s take a look at your knight talent," said the young man.


    The knights here are different from the knights in the wall. Although the fighting methods are similar, the knights in the wall pay more attention to morality. They will be awarded knight medals after strict assessment. They are purely external fighting professions. for heavy.


    Du Di''an was sitting on the rocking horse, holding a long spear and waving it constantly, feeling extremely awkward.


    When the young man saw it, he immediately shook his head and asked Du Dian to perform the last test.


    The core of a thief is to hide and evade. The test method is a large cage full of knives and guns. This cage will keep shaking, and the knives and guns inside will continue to shake. There are no rules, and it is completely determined by the speed of individual nerve reactions.


    "Put this on." The youth handed Du Di''an a set of bulky black iron suits.


    Du Dian immediately put it on, and immediately felt awkward.


    After entering the iron cage, the young man pressed the mechanism, and the iron cage swayed suddenly, and the swords inside were like countless soldiers holding him to encircle him, stabbing him in a mess.


    Du Dian hurriedly dodged left and right, his eyes swept left and right, and occasionally saw silver light from the corner of his eyes, he quickly lowered his head to dodge, his body''s instinctive response was extremely sensitive, and as the dodging time went on, he quickly grasped the shaking from his feet to a certain degree. Regularly, it is handier to avoid.


    Despite this, two or three shots were still stabbed into his body, but he was protected by black iron armor and was not injured.


    Soon, the test is over.


    The young man opened the cage, his face full of admiration, and said: "Tsk tsk, I didn''t expect you to have such a sensitive skill, although your physique is relatively high, it is too strong to have such a reaction, otherwise, you can change your career to be a thief, Your talent in this area will enable you to reach the intermediate hunter level as soon as possible, and after so many years in the consortium, your thief talent is the top three, no, the top two I have ever seen!"


    Du Dian didn''t expect to get such an evaluation and was happy in his heart, but after thinking about it, he still said: "I still like to be a hunter and kill enemies thousands of meters away."


    "This... okay." The young man sighed regretfully and did not force it. After all, this is just a simple test. It can only roughly see some talents, and it is not completely accurate. Many people are not good at first, but later they are more Those who are comfortable at first are more proficient, and he has seen a few such examples. And in the boring skill practice, interest is very key, which is why the consortium does not compulsorily arrange occupations but lets the hunters choose for themselves.


    "Although your hunters and thieves are very talented, don''t be complacent. You have to train well in the future. The consortium doesn''t give you much time, and strive to become a real hunter within a year." The young man said earnestly: "Although Your study time is only one-third of that of other apprentice hunters, you have already mastered the magic marks, and your physique has improved in all aspects, making it easier to learn. If you fail the skill test after one year, the consortium will force you to Send it to the outside of the wall, so that you can hone in actual combat."


    "However, you should also understand the dangers outside the wall, so work hard, be lazy today, and you will die tomorrow."


    Du Dian''s face was solemn, he nodded and said, "I know."


    "Okay, follow me to the hunter training ground," said the young man.

 Chapter 98: Thousand Arrows

    The hunter training ground is located on the other side of the river behind the castle. There is very wide grass here. At this moment, five figures are standing on the side of the grass, drawing bows and shooting arrows, and the targets are located 100 meters away.


    The five people were four men and one woman, each of whom was served by two servants dressed as servants, passing arrows or tea.


    At this time, the young man came to the venue and clapped his palms. The five suddenly stopped and looked over.


    "Introduce you to a new companion or your future senior." The young man smiled and pointed to Du Di''an: "His name is Du Di''an, and he will train with you from today."


    The five suddenly looked at Du Dian, the first impression was Junxiu, and the second was quiet.


    "Instructor He, he is a newcomer, how can he be our senior?" One of the white-skinned teenagers frowned.


    The young man smiled slightly and said: "Dian used to be a scavenger, and he accidentally got the magic marks. He is already a veritable hunter. What he lacks are only professional skills. He will graduate after studying here for a year, and he will naturally be your senior in the future, unless, you can finish your training before he graduates."


    The five people were a little surprised, including the white-skinned boy who spoke earlier and couldn''t help but look at Du Dian a few more times.


    The youth took Du Dian to a vacant rack and said, "This is your position, given your physique as a hunter, today''s training volume is a thousand times of bronze bow archery, when will it be completed, when will it end, thousand Don''t even think about putting it off until tomorrow, or you''ll never have dinner."


    Du Di''an nodded, expressing that he understood that he had seen the cruelty outside the wall. The purpose of his training was not simply to complete the task, but to improve himself. No matter how many tasks the young instructor set, he would tire himself out. to the extreme!


    "The distance of each arrow must exceed the line below the target position. In the first seven days, you are not required to hit the target with a hundred arrows, but the number of a thousand arrows must not be less!" The young instructor changed the previous easy-going. attitude said coldly.


    Dudian nodded.


    The young instructor had an arrangement, and two servants were standing in front of this vacant stand. As the young instructor waved, one of the servants handed the bow and arrow on the stand to Du Dian with difficulty.


    Du Dian took it and started with a heavy hand, which was similar to the bow he had previously tested his talent with, but it was nothing to him. He immediately bent the bow and set the arrow, aimed at the target, and started shooting.


    The young instructor watched and watched for a while, and felt boring, so he said to Du Di''an: "If you need anything, just tell them both, they are the servants who are specially responsible for your training."


    Du Di''an nodded slightly and continued to bend bows and arrows.


    The initial training of hunters is to repeatedly shoot arrows to improve the accuracy of bows and arrows. After all, this is the main attack method of hunters. When hunting with their companions, it is often possible that the misalignment of one arrow will cause the companion to die tragically under the claws of monsters. Therefore, the hunter''s requirements for the accuracy rate are almost to the point of perversion!


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    Next to Du Di''an is a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy. While shooting arrows, he can''t help looking at Du Di''an curiously, wanting to see how powerful the real hunter who masters the magic marks is.


    Soon, the teenager was disappointed. Du Dian''s archery level was worse than his. Even more than a dozen arrows at a distance of 100 meters did not hit once, and all missed the target, but the shooting distance was quite long.


    "It seems that the hunter is nothing more than a strong physique, nothing special." The young man secretly thought, and no longer paid attention to Du Dian, and continued his archery training.


    Du Dian repeatedly took the arrows, and shot them again and again, each time he shot an arrow after dozens of arrows were shot, he gradually felt that he had mastered some shooting sensations, such as the aiming angle, the approximate distance of the deviation from the actual position, and the strength of the shooting force. Weak angle changes.


    In the old days, it was extremely difficult to hit the 100-meter target, but Du Dian and the five apprentice hunters were not ordinary people in the old era. A heavy bow is naturally a person who has received God''s blessing.


    You must know that the heavier the bow, the greater the strength, and the advantage of greater strength is that in addition to being able to shoot farther, the accuracy will also be higher!


    The closer the shot is, the easier it is to hit the fundamental principle, which is strength!


    "Ordinary people''s hunting bows will weaken when they shoot 50 meters, the arrows will slide down, and they will deviate slightly due to the influence of the airflow, but for a heavy bow like me, the distance of 80 meters is like 10 meters. The arrow is still galloping in full force, in other words, the stronger the tension of the bow, the farther it shoots, and it seems that I will get a good bow in the future!" When Du Dian felt the feeling of shooting, he also thought of his plans.


    Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!


    He kept shooting arrows, and the movements were single and repeated. When the arrows in the basket were finished, the servants beside him would help to reload them.


    When shooting 200 arrows, Du Dian''s hit rate increased significantly. Ten arrows can hit two arrows. After all, his physique is high. Once skilled, the hit rate will increase rapidly.


    However, hitting the target is just a simple entry, and if you want to go further, the difficulty increases tenfold!


    When the boy next to him was resting, he accidentally caught a glimpse of Du Dian''s target, and he was stunned for a moment. There were more than 30 arrows stuck on the target, which was densely packed, and the moment just now, he only shot 160 arrows. Even if Du Di''an is faster than him, the difference is not too big. In this way, the target rate is not low. Although it can''t be compared with him, at least he hopes to meet the training requirements of young instructors.


    "Change the target." Du Dian said.


    A servant immediately changed into a black armor suit and ran over carefully to change a new target.


    After the target was changed, Du Dian continued to draw the bow and shoot arrows.


    With a loud bang, the arrow hit the target.


    Du Di''an shot another arrow, with an indulgent sound, and hit the target again.


    Dudian continued to shoot.


    Soon, five of the ten arrows hit the target. Although three arrows were on the outermost edge of the target, they almost missed the target, but the results were not bad.


    Du Di''an thought of the walking corpse outside the wall, narrowed his eyes, took the target as a standing walking corpse, took the red heart as its head, and pulled up the bow and arrow to shoot continuously.


    After shooting four hundred arrows in a row, Du Di''an felt that his arm was extremely sore and had to stop and rest. After the arm recovered a little, he continued to shoot.


    Soon, at dusk, the sun sets in the west.


    Du Dian has already shot 800 arrows. After shooting 500 arrows, his hit rate has dropped instead. The soreness of his arms makes him unable to maintain stability. When it comes to archery at the back, it is purely the feeling of exercising the arms and shooting...


    At this time, the five apprentice hunters next to them had completed their respective tasks, and they were so tired that they were out of breath. After saying hello to Du Dian, they each left.


    Du Di''an stood in front of the sunset, sweating on his face, gritted his teeth, and kept shooting. Every time his arm was extremely sore, a voice would emerge from the bottom of his heart, and he kept persuading him to stop and rest. At this moment, he deliberately thought of the wall. The walking corpse outside, the hideous appearance, and the helpless feeling when being chased, then a blood-boiling force will surge up in my heart, and continue to shoot.


    Laziness is innate, but persistence is a choice.

 Chapter 99: Excess

    It was getting dark.


    Du Dian still draws the bow and shoots arrows. Every time he draws the bow, it is extremely laborious and even painful, but he still shoots one arrow at a time. The two servants stood next to each other and looked at each other. They exchanged fifty-seven arrows for Du Dian, twenty per barrel, which had already exceeded the number of thousand arrows.


    "Sir, your mission of a thousand arrows has been completed." One of the servants hesitated for a moment, but still interrupted Du Dian''s training.


    Du Dian took a breath and said, "I know, continue to change arrows."


    After speaking, continue to draw the bow and shoot hard.


    When I was so tired that I couldn''t draw the bow, I would rest for a while, and after I recovered a little, I resumed shooting.


    It was not until around 1:00 pm that Du Dian was so tired that his arms were shaking and he could no longer draw the bow. Then he had to stop and asked a young servant next to him, "How many arrows?"


    "One thousand two hundred and ninety arrows." The servant said quickly.


    Du Di''an took a breath and secretly said: "It''s still ten arrows to reach the whole number." The obsessive-compulsive disorder in his heart made trouble, he planned to go back to rest, but now he is more serious.


    Soon, in the intermittent rest and archery, Du Dian spent a quarter of an hour, and finally made up the ten arrows, rounded up to a whole number, and was satisfied and ready to leave.


    At this time, the young instructor came from a distance and saw Du Dian next to the rack, and said in surprise, "It''s not finished yet?"


    "It''s done." Du Dian gasped.


    The young instructor glanced at the two servants next to him, and when he saw them nodding slightly, he knew that Du Dian had not fooled himself, and said with a smile: "Go back and rest when you are done, these thousand arrows are determined according to your physique. When I came here, I was tired of 300 arrows a day. Now I can only do 800 arrows a day. After all, your physical fitness is much higher than theirs. A thousand arrows are your starting point. You will continue to gradually increase your training volume, don''t be neglectful and lazy, you know?"


    Dudian nodded.


    "Go back and have a good rest." The young instructor waved.


    Du Di''an handed the bow and arrow to the servant, turned, and left the lawn, his arms were still shaking slightly from exhaustion.


    The place to sleep at night is in a nearby apprentice hunter castle, which is full of apprentice hunters cultivated by the consortium privately. Du Di''an came to the front hall for dinner. I have to say that the life of the hunters'' special training is completely different from that of the scavengers. , the scavengers are thoroughly disciplined, and poor living, and poor food, from the time of special training to make them adapt to the living conditions outside the wall.


    On the other hand, hunters are different. As long as they complete their tasks every day, other aspects of material enjoyment are very superior.


    There are specially hired chefs waiting for you at any time, and you can order any meal. As long as you complete the task before 9 p.m., you can eat as much as you want.


    Du Di''an arrived in time. He arrived at 8:30 a.m. and ordered a fried blood steak and a pointed-billed foie gras, both of which are poultry raised in the wall. It is not obvious, and after generations of reproduction, the definition has long been changed from "mutation" to "evolution". It belongs to pollution-free poultry and is the favorite food of aristocrats.


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    After eating, Du Dian went back to the room arranged by the young instructor to sleep.


    The room is independent and very spacious, which is a rare enjoyment for Du Di''an, who is used to living a hard life.


    The night passed quickly, and I got up on time the next day and came to the hall below the old castle. I immediately saw a lot of figures about my age, including a trainee hunter who had trained together yesterday.


    "Good morning." The young man bumped into Du Di''an, and immediately said hello calmly, and said with a smile: "My name is Tessen, I heard that you came back very late last night, the first day was very hard, I gave you a thousand arrows The amount of training, as expected of the person who obtained the magic mark, can fulfill such a terrifying requirement."


    Du Di''an said politely: "It will be the same when you get the magic marks in the future."


    The teenager smiled slightly, the corners of his mouth were upturned, and he said nothing, said goodbye to Du Dian, and went to the side to get his breakfast.


    Du Dian also went to line up and asked for his breakfast. After eating, he moved his lower arm. After a night of recovery, he still felt a little sore. He knew that today''s practice would be more difficult.


    After a few breakfasts, Du Di''an came to the lawn. At this moment, the other five people hadn''t come over, nor did the servants arrive. Du Di''an ignored it and took the arrows and started to practice.


    After shooting a hundred arrows, I saw the other five people come here one after another. The training of the young instructors is very free. As long as the number of tasks is completed on the day, no matter how long it takes to train, the time will be arranged by yourself.


    After the five people arrived, they greeted each other and started training separately.


    A single training course and day-to-day life are extremely boring for a child of Du Di''an''s age, but Du Di''an has been very patient since he was a child, and he has seen the destruction of the world and the cruelty outside the wall, which also makes him feel The thirst for power is stronger.


    This desire surpasses all other pleasures.


    In the blink of an eye, another day passed.


    The young instructor visited the crowd several times during this period, instructed the basic posture of archery and the role of shoulders, arms, and other parts, and then left.


    At eight o''clock in the evening, Du Dian was so tired that his arm cramped again and had to stop, and today''s task volume was barely 1,200 arrows, a hundred arrows less than yesterday. The main reason was that yesterday''s overdraft was too large, and his arm The aftermath of soreness affects today.


    Du Dian dragged his body back to the castle, and after dinner, he went back to his room and fell asleep.


    On the next third and fourth days, Du Di''an still went back every night at eight o''clock.


    On the third day, however, the number of archery shots soared to 1,500 arrows, and the soreness in his arms gradually got used to after resting at night. On the fourth day, the number of arrows shot reached 1,600.


    In the high-intensity training, Du Dian''s body is also adjusting and adapting quickly.


    The five people who trained with Du Di''an all felt Du Di''an''s improvement in archery. The hit rate was almost double that of the previous one. Almost every ten arrows, there would only be one or two misses, and the rest were all hits! Of course, this is only the probability that the first few hundred arrows will appear. The further back you go, the lower the hit rate, which can be ignored.


    Rao is so, and the progress has been made in just a few days, which surprised the five people.


    However, considering that Du Dian is a hunter who masters magic marks after all, and his physique is several times higher than theirs, such amazing progress can be explained.


    Despite this, the five people were still a little unconvinced. Even if they were facing hunters who mastered the magic marks, they didn''t want to train for a long time and be quickly caught up by a newcomer, so in the next few days, a few people shot arrows at themselves. At the time, the attitude demanded to be more serious, instead of shooting casually as before, just hoping that the arrow would fly over the target.


    In the blink of an eye, seven days passed.


    Du Dian has increased the number of archery per day to 1,800!


    "Now you have adapted. Starting today, the number of arrows you shoot every day has increased to 1,500 arrows!"


    Du Dian nodded and didn''t say anything. His current target arrows have reached about 500, which is twice as fast as the task set by the young instructor! However, he doesn''t care about the number of tasks given by the young instructors. His goal is to surpass himself and squeeze himself to the limit!


    As for whether he can complete the task of the young instructor, it is completely out of his consideration.

 Chapter 100: Extreme

    The hardships continued.


    In the blink of an eye, another seven days passed.


    The young instructor seems to take seven days as a stage. During the archery training on the eighth day, Du Dian once again set a new task target. The number of arrows shot every day increases by one hundred again. One thousand six hundred arrows need to be completed, and there must be four. A hundred arrows hit the target!


    This time, the improvement did not directly increase by 500. Perhaps it was due to the limitation of the physique. In the evaluation of the young instructor, it was very difficult to complete the 1,500 arrows with the physique of Du Di''an''s junior hunter. The number of one hundred arrows is extremely difficult, and two thousand arrows are the limit of Du Di''an''s physical ability!


    His assessment was obtained from various sources and was very accurate, but he did not know that when he set this task target, Du Dian had already increased the number of arrows to 2,080 arrows!


    Moreover, this record was immediately broken the next day, reaching 2,112 arrows!


    The further back, the slower the number of Du Dian''s archery growth, his physical fitness has already reached a limit or even broke through the limit. And his hit rate also reached 700 arrows! In other words, he can shoot seven hundred arrows continuously and stably!


    This is a terrifying degree, and it also means that he is getting started with bows and arrows!


    However, it''s just an introduction. After all, the target is static, and the target area is large. If you want to be accurate to a smaller red heart range, the difficulty is even greater!


    In the blink of an eye, half a month has passed.


    Hunter training ground.


    Indole! Indole! Indole!


    The arrows flew out continuously, the arrows hit the target, and one of the three arrows hit the red heart.


    Du Dian''s movements are stable. His sore arm from yesterday''s fatigue has recovered to seven or eight after a night''s rest, and his body has fully adapted to such high-intensity training.


    When he fired two hundred arrows, the other five talents came to the training ground one after another.


    In this month''s archery training, Du Dian''s rapid progress has impressed the five people with admiration. However, thinking that Du Dian is a hunter with magic marks, the five people are both envious and somewhat jealous.


    Not long after the five people arrived, the young instructor also came. Except when he released the task indicators, his expression was always very easy-going, and he chuckled to Du Dian: "Today is the first month that you come here to train, and the number of archery per day is also the same. Reaching 2,000 arrows is considered to be the limit, and all of them have completed the target I gave you on time. I believe that your current arm strength can be controlled very stably."


    Du Dian stopped and looked at him.


    "Next, it''s time to teach you the first bow shooting skills for junior hunters. When you master it, you can be regarded as a qualified archer." The young instructor smiled slightly and picked up the other bow on the shelf next to him. A black bow and quiver pulled out a pitch-black arrow, and said to Du Di''an: "Look carefully, this move is called ''Lianzhu Arrow''!"


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    When the words fell, the fingers loosened, and the tendon string suddenly bounced out.


    With a screeching sound, the arrow shot out of the sky and nailed it to the target with a loud bang, centered on the red heart.


    Just when Du Dian turned back to look at the young instructor, he heard another squeak coming from the archery target, and he couldn''t help but look at it in amazement, but saw two arrows nailed to the red heart!


    "You didn''t see it." The young instructor smiled and said, "The so-called Lianzhu arrows are arrows that are shot in rapid succession without any pause, and the arrows are like continuous beads. The difficulty of this move lies in stability and speed, and the position of the two arrows should be maintained. The first line, this can cause maximum lethality, encountering a monster with strong defense, the first arrow will tear the scales, the second arrow will pierce the flesh, and the third arrow will kill it!"


    Du Dian looked at it, nodded, and said, "Got it."


    "You just learned, I''ll give you half a month to master Errenzhu." The young instructor''s face turned cold and he said, "If you don''t master it by then, you will get hell training."


    Du Di''an nodded slightly, indicating that he understood.


    "Remember, the key to this move is stability. At the same time, the speed of drawing and shooting arrows should be fast, accurate, and stable!" the young instructor instructed. After speaking, he quickly set up arrows and shot two arrows in a row, all of which hit the heart of the target...


    Du Di''an saw it this time. The speed of his arrows was as fast as a phantom. Almost the first arrow was fired, and the latter one was already set up, and his hand speed was astonishingly fast!


    Under the gaze of the young instructor, Du Dian also began to practice.


    Soon, he felt the difficulty. The first was to draw the arrow. When he touched the quiver behind his back, he might not be able to catch the arrow right the first time. Occasionally, it was also because the grasping gesture or position was wrong. The speed has slowed down, and it is impossible to achieve continuous shooting.


    The young instructor watched him practice for a while, and ordered "practice well", then turned and left.


    Du Di''an practiced repeatedly.


    Another day passed.


    He passed through the process of shooting arrows and shooting quickly and was completely immersed in it. When the servant reminded him at about 8 p.m., he came back to his senses and asked subconsciously, "How many arrows were shot today?"


    "Two thousand five hundred and thirty arrows." The servant continued.


    Du Dian was a little surprised. Since three days ago, the number of his archery has been stable at around 2,350 arrows. Today, he has increased by 180 arrows in one breath? You know, his physical ability has already reached its limit.


    "I was too invested, but I didn''t feel the fatigue of my body." Du Di''an came to his senses, and suddenly saw the blisters from the frayed fingers, the water and blood flowing out, and immediately wrapped them in clothes and went back to eat.


    the next day.


    Du Di''an came early as usual and continued to practice Lianzhujian.


    As the number of exercises increased, Du Di''an became more and more familiar with Lianzhu Arrow. However, as he learned more, he gradually rejected this arrow method.


    "Rapid shooting of the beaded arrows, although the lethality of two consecutive arrows or even three arrows is very strong, the shortcomings are also obvious. Rapid shooting will lead to the weakening of the strength of each arrow, and the actual damage caused by the three arrows is at most worth it. One and a half arrows!" Du Dixin secretly said: "If you can shoot with one arrow, why do you need three arrows? Practice this, it is better to practice the one arrow before you charge, although the speed is slow, the hunter is a lurking and shooting battle. The way, as long as it can be solved with one arrow.¡±


    "Also, people''s energy is limited, and it takes too long to practice Lianzhujian, so it''s better to concentrate on learning."


    He decided to go to the extreme!


    Anything to the extreme is terrifying.


    Whether it''s "only fast but not broken" or "one power down ten meetings" is a kind of extreme!


    Although this beaded arrow is beautiful, fancy, and seems to be powerful, Du Di''an feels that it is not worth wasting energy to learn.


    Thinking of this, Du Dian gave up practicing Lianzhu arrows and continued to practice the previous basic archery repeatedly!


    However, this time, instead of blindly pursuing quantity, he was thinking about how to make the destructive power more powerful while shooting arrows.

 Chapter 101: Emergency call

    Half a month passed in a blink of an eye.


    During repeated archery training, Du Dian''s accuracy increased rapidly, almost every arrow could hit the target before the arm trembled out of control, and seven out of ten arrows could hit the red heart! For ordinary people to achieve such results, at least three or five years of hard training can be achieved, but with Du Di''an''s hunter physique, such rapid progress has been completed in just two months.


    Of course, this is inseparable from his extreme training day and night.


    In addition to the accuracy, almost every arrow of Du Di''an penetrated the target, and the lethality was significantly improved. However, his ''Lianzhu Arrow'' did not make any progress. When the young instructor came to test his performance, he was immediately angry. broken.


    "You, you learned this level in half a month? The posture of drawing arrows is so ugly, it''s too negligent! Don''t think that you are a hunter if you master the magic marks. If you go hunting outside the wall, you can only hunt some scavengers. A low-level monster that can kill!" The young instructor angrily announced, "Since you can''t even learn ''Lianzhujian'' and like to be lazy, starting tomorrow, give me another month of basic arrow training, don''t you know! ?"


    Du Di''an thought it was a hellish punishment, but he didn''t expect to practice elemental arrows. He couldn''t help smiling, and his joy showed a little bit from the corner of his mouth. Such a "careless" appearance made the young instructor even more furious.


    So, in the next month, the young instructor greatly increased Du Dian''s daily archery tasks, which suddenly increased to 2,200! In his opinion, such overload training has completely exceeded Du Dian''s physical fitness. If the target is not met on time, there will be no dinner, and the next day''s training will be slower without dinner.


    In this way, it will fall into a vicious circle, facing overloaded training volume every day, which will make a person overworked and even collapse, which can greatly temper willpower.


    This is also the training purpose of the young instructors. Although it is said to be punishment, the consortium''s style is based on interests, and the purpose of punishment is punishment, which is not what the consortium wants, so although it is punishment, it is still mainly to improve Du Dian''s ability.


    Du Dian''s number of archery has long reached the level of 2,800 arrows, and the "high standard" set by the young instructor has long been easily surpassed, and he continues to immerse himself in his archery insights.


    ...


    ...


    The world outside the wall, Mellon Consortium No. 1 area.


    Different from other areas under the Mellon consortium, there are hardly any broken high-rise buildings, buildings, and metal wreckage in the No. 1 area. It is empty, like a vast wilderness, without weeds, and occasionally you can see high-speed breaking and collapsing. The road, already covered with thick moss and dust, shows that this area was once an urban area.


    However, there is no complete building around.


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    There are gravels and bloodstains everywhere, and corpses are rarely seen. The bloodstains turn into reddish water under the scouring of the disaster rain and flow to every corner of the rock crevices. When it dries up, it becomes a natural and beautiful pattern. on earth.


    At this moment, five figures appeared like ghostly shadows beside a pile of corpses with broken walls, quietly clinging to the back of the wall, looking at the broken street beside the broken wall, where there were two dents half a foot deep into the ground¡ªabout one meter long. Next to the dent was a lump of dark dirt, exuding a strong and pungent odor. If you looked closely, you could see some bone residue and corroded metal in the dirt.


    One of the figures quietly stepped forward, picked up the stone, and lightly poked the filth. Seeing it was soft and pulpy, he quietly came back and said in a low voice, "From the perspective of the degree of dryness, you should leave here for no more than two hours."


    "Chase."


    One of them is human.


    The five set off quickly, catching up silently along the huge dent on the ground.


    A quarter of an hour later, one of them suddenly gestured to stop.


    The man lowered his voice and said solemnly: "I smell it, it''s just three o''clock ahead, it should be about eight kilometers away from us."


    "Very well, you prepare, ambushed behind, the four of us go up." One of the team leaders said excitedly.


    The man just nodded his head before, his face suddenly changed in vain, and he hurriedly said: "Not good! Hurry up-"


    puff!


    From the ground under the feet of several people, several claws-like jet-black sharps jumped out in vain, and one of them pierced out of the speaker''s vest and pierced through his heart.


    ...


    ...


    Hunter headquarters, in an old castle by the Neil River.


    A piece of information was sent by the black crow from the window and fell onto the table.


    When he saw the red mark in the lower left corner of the envelope, West, who was enjoying afternoon tea while the maid was serving, shrank his pupils. With a solemn expression, he quickly opened the envelope.


    "The "Black Weaver" appeared in the No. 1 area and hunted down three hunters? When West saw the content of the intelligence, his face couldn''t help changing, and he hurriedly checked the incident. "The sixth team was on the way to track the "Mountain Lion" and was attacked and killed by the "Black Weaver". Only the captain and one team member were seriously injured. escape. "


    "Finally can''t stand it anymore, damn it!" West held the letterhead tightly. The next moment, he quickly took out the letterhead, stuffed it into his letterhead intact, hung it on the black crow''s feet, and patted it. He patted the black crow''s feather and said, "Go to Glory''s place."


    The black crow screeched harshly, fluttered its wings, and flew out of the window.


    ...


    ...


    Hunter training ground.


    Du Dian trained, as usual, constantly drawing and shooting arrows, and the accuracy became sharper and sharper, and even wanted to find some moving targets to practice his hands.


    At this moment, it was almost noon meal time. Suddenly, the young instructor came to the training ground in a hurry. After finding Du Dian, he immediately handed him a letter and gasped: "This is an emergency sign given to you by the consortium, and there is a situation outside the wall. , There is a temporary shortage of free hunters. The ability you filled in for the "Dread of Dyeing" is a super sense of smell, right? "


    Du Dian couldn''t help but stop, a little stunned, "But I''m still training."


    "This is an emergency sign. As long as you don''t perform other tasks outside the wall and you can''t get in touch, you must put down all your work and respond to the consortium''s call!" The young instructor spoke quickly and said: "Your hunter armor is already Once it is ordered, it will be delivered to you in a while, stop quickly, don¡¯t waste your energy, go and replenish it, and someone will pick you up outside the wall soon.¡±


    "So urgent?" Du Dian also quickly put down his bow, no longer wasting his energy, "Are there any other resting hunters?"


    "Other hunters are either recovering from injuries or have important matters at hand, otherwise the headquarters will not send you a newcomer to such a dangerous place." The young instructor urged: "Hurry up."

 Chapter 102: "Black Weaver"

    "What is an emergency mission, is it dangerous?" Du Dian couldn''t help but said.


    The young instructor said: "I heard that rare named monsters are appearing, there are some dangers, but the team you are with is led by Gloria, one of the two strongest hunters in the consortium, you only Just keep track of the smell, and they''ll keep you safe, as long as you don''t get left behind."


    "Rare named monsters?" Du Dian thought that the consortium also commented on the "Dreaders" he hunted. Is it a monster of the same level as it? Immediately asked: "Can I go to the residential area first?"


    "Of course not!" The young instructor said without thinking: "The time for the emergency sign is very urgent. You go to the hunting castle hall with me immediately, and the others should have arrived long ago." After speaking, he grabbed Du Di''an''s hand and flew away. run away.


    Du Di was apprehensive. It was too hasty. He didn''t have time to deploy black powder for self-defense. With his bare hands and newly learned archery, he was inevitably a little worried.


    Soon, under the leadership of the young instructor, the two crossed the river and came to the ancient castle on the other side of the territory, which was leaning on the edge of the mountain.


    The young instructor took Du Dian to the castle and said, "Come in, they are all waiting for you inside, I will prepare some dry food for you."


    Du Di was grateful, and after he left, he turned around and took a deep breath, and entered the castle.


    The guards at the door did not stop him and opened the huge door for him.


    In the front hall of the ancient castle, the light was dark, and six figures were standing, four men and two women, talking about something. When they heard the door open, they looked back.


    "Is that the little guy?" one of them asked.


    Another young man said: "I heard that he is a lucky rookie scavenger, and it is probably him."


    At this time, a slender figure emerged from the few people. It was a woman in her early twenties, with fair skin and beautiful skin. The style of black hunter armor was tight-fitting, fully showing her graceful and uneven body line. She glanced at Du Dian and said, "Change into your armor immediately and prepare to go."


    Du Di''an suddenly felt that the woman was familiar, and suddenly remembered that when he had just become a scavenger and was invited to a noble banquet, he had seen two hunters. This woman was one of them. Presumably, she and the young man were the consortia. The two strongest hunters, no wonder the nobles will take the initiative to say hello when they see them, and their attitude are extremely friendly, including the people from the main family of Mel.


    "Yes." As promised, Du Dian swept around, and suddenly saw a stack of black armor on the chair next to him, and immediately trotted over and shook it away, the size matched his height, it should be prepared for himself.


    In addition to the armor, there is also a black bow.


    After being fully armed, Du Dian put on the black bow and quiver, and said to the woman, "I''m ready."


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    "Well." Seeing Du Di''an being so efficient, the woman nodded slightly and said to the others, "This time the "Black Weaver" appears, we must do our best to catch it, and we can''t let it slip away. I cheered up, do you hear me? "


    "Yes!" The other five stood at attention and shouted.


    Gloria nodded slightly and waved her hand: "Let''s go!"


    When I opened the door of the front hall first, I came to the stable next to the castle. There were more than a dozen large black horses, wearing simple steel helmets, to prevent them from being bitten by monsters in the radiation area when they passed through the radiation area.


    Although the monsters in the radiation zone are incomparable to those outside the wall, they are also extremely dangerous. However, this is not managed by Du Di''an and the consortium hunters, but by the army and the bright knights of the Holy See.


    Everyone got on their horses.


    Du Di''an saw that the young instructor''s dry food hadn''t been delivered, so he could only give up, turned over and climbed on a big horse, and with the lead, Gregory shouted "drive", the seven-person team, including Du Di''an, immediately followed the trail of the territory. go.


    In addition to the territory, everyone went straight to the wasteland of the radiation area.


    Along the way, I occasionally bumped into some beasts in the radiation area, including pythons coiling around the roadside, and a small group of three or five wolves scattered. Under the infiltration of the radiation area, these monsters have undergone slight mutations in their bodies, some parts are festering, and some are strangely shaped stratum corneum grows on the site.


    When these hungry beasts saw Du Dian and others, they were about to rush. The leader of the team, Gloria, just snorted and did nothing. The hungry beasts quickly retreated in fright, as if they had encountered something extremely vicious.


    Du Di''an was not surprised, knowing that her magic marks were at work, otherwise it would be difficult to scare away beasts, especially hungry beasts, with human intimidation alone. The magic marks are different, with the smell of monsters outside the wall. To these beasts, these hunters are like monsters in human skin. It is not bad to not hunt them. How dare you take the initiative to bring them up Food.


    Soon, everyone came to the outside of the giant wall.


    "You are here, the passage has been opened for you." In front of the giant wall stood a middle-aged man wearing a Mellon consortium costume.


    Gregory nodded slightly to him, turned over and dismounted, and entered the passage first.


    In the dark underground passage, halfway through, Gloria and the other five people stopped at the same time, put their hands together, and prayed to the goddess of hunting carved on the wall of the passage, but due to the emergency, the prayer was only symbolic. After a moment, he quickly walked down the aisle.


    Du Di''an only glanced at it and walked behind.


    Once again outside the wall.


    Du Dian found that the entrance of the passage this time was different from the last one. It should be another entrance controlled by the consortium. Outside the entrance, the wall is not a plain, but a forest of giant trees more than 20 meters high. Pen holder, no branches or leaves.


    Gloria entered the giant tree forest, and she was familiar with the road and flew away in one direction.


    The others followed closely behind, guarding Du Di''an in the center of the team.


    Du Di''an suddenly felt the gap between himself and the other hunters. They could easily keep up with Gloria''s footsteps, but they needed to use 70-80% of their strength to keep up, otherwise, they would have to fall behind.


    "It seems that even among junior hunters, there are differences in the physique." Du Di Anxin secretly said: "However, the blessing of the gods from the consortium that I have accumulated in the past two months has not been taken, and there is still area 9. Two hundred and ten cold crystals in the collection."


    Going out through the giant tree forest, across the edge of the forest is a broken highway, covered with moss.


    "Get on the bridge," Gloria said, quickly jumping onto the highway.


    Du Dian''s mouth twitched and followed.


    "In front of you is the No. 1 area." Gregory looked back at Du Dian at this time and said: "When you arrive at the No. 1 area, you just need to protect yourself, it is best not to take it lightly, this is our Mellon consortium. Among the more than 20 areas it belongs to, except for the forbidden area, the strongest area, all the monsters in it are hunter level 10 or above. This time we want to catch the mature "Black Weaver" with hunter level 26. . "

 Chapter 103: Instant Slash

    "Hunting level twenty-six?" Du Dian looked at her in horror.


    Although he has been training in archery during this period, he still learned about some monsters outside the wall in his spare time of eating, such as the juvenile "Dreader" that he hunted last time, which is the hunting level "Nine" ¡± monsters, and the ordinary walking corpses he saw were hunting level ¡°four¡± existences. As for the bone-eating mice, they all hunted small monsters below level three.


    However, what we have to face this time is a terrifying existence with a hunting level as high as "twenty-six"?!


    Du Di''an can''t imagine what kind of terrifying existence it is, the pores in his body can''t help shrinking, and there is a chill in his heart, almost the first reaction is to escape! However, when he saw Gregory''s unquestioning gaze, he immediately understood that there was no turning back. Although he was a little frightened in his heart, he still bit the bullet and calmed himself down quickly.


    This is the end of the matter, and the only thing I can do is to save my life.


    His brain quickly pondered, and although he hadn''t encountered the monster yet, he felt an unprecedented crisis.


    "What is this monster-like, and does it have any special abilities?" Du Di''an asked thoughtfully.


    Named monsters like this have some special genetic mutation abilities.


    "You don''t need to know this." Another young man said indifferently: "You only need to be responsible for tracking its smell, you don''t need to take action, just protect yourself."


    Gloria took out a bunch of black fragments from a small pocket behind her and handed them to Du Dian, saying, "This is the carapace shed by the "Black Weaver" that was found before. You can record the smell on it, if it is convenient, you can Can you tell me the range of scents you can track? "


    Du Di''an took the palm-sized black hard shell, which was smooth but extremely hard like the shell on the back of a snail. There was a layer of sticky pale yellow sticky silk on the inside of the shell, which had dried up and exuded a strong stench. He glanced at it, gave it to Gloria, and replied, "I can smell a strong odor of about 20 miles in the widest range, and some lighter odors can only be smelled at a distance of about 10 miles."


    Hearing this, Gloria and the other five couldn''t help but glance at Du Dian, with a hint of surprise in their eyes. Such a range of smells can be ranked in the top five in terms of the "smell tracking" ability of the entire consortium, while Du Dian is only It''s just a newcomer, and when his physique improves, his sense of smell will naturally expand exponentially, and his ranking will also improve.


    "Not bad!" Gloria nodded and said, "Then I''ll leave it to you."


    Du Di''an was relieved to see that they had no objection. His actual maximum smell range was about 30 to 40 miles. The reason why he concealed part of it was mainly that there was another offended ''bloody swordsman'' in the consortium. ''Bailin, of course, her details cannot be fully revealed, so as not to have no chance to fight back when she is plotted against in the future.


    "Have you smelled it in the current range?" Gloria asked Du Dian.


    Du Di''an took a few short breaths and shook his head: "No, but I smell other smells, which should be similar to other monsters."


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    "Don''t worry about the other monsters, we only hunt down the "Black Weaver"! "Gloria lowered her posture and said, "Follow me." "Fumbling along the broken highway.


    Du Di''an and others followed.


    After advancing four or five miles, Gloria stopped suddenly, pointed to a few dents on the edge of a small concave pond in the distance, and said, "These are the footprints of mountain lions. The "Black Weaver" likes to eat mountain lions the most. superior. "Speaking of this, he turned back to Du Di''an and said: "You record the smell on these footprints, and if you can find a mountain lion, let me know. "


    Du Dian nodded.


    Everyone followed the direction of the huge footprint more than one meter long.


    Not long after advancing, Du Dian suddenly said: "There are other monsters ahead, and the number is three."


    Gloria tilted her head to a short young man on her left and said, "Go check it out."


    The short young man nodded slightly, his figure suddenly faded, and he disappeared out of thin air!


    Du Di''an''s pupils shrank, and he couldn''t help being stunned.


    But soon, Du Di''an found that the smell of the short young man was still there. The next moment, he noticed the position where the short young man disappeared. The light seemed to be a little distorted, and there seemed to be a transparent human figure moving there. He couldn''t help it. He asked a young man next to him, "He is this?"


    "This is his magic mark ability. With his thief profession, he is the most effective detective of our consortium." The young man said casually.


    Du Dian came to a realization and was surprised that there was such a magical ability of magic marks. In comparison, his super sense of smell did not seem to be special. However, if he had speculated that his true ability of magic marks could be directly Absorbing cold crystals is a powerful ability.


    With the scent tracking, Du Dian smelled that the short young man left quickly and returned quickly, his figure was revealed, and he reported to Gloria: "It''s three crocodile-headed wolves."


    Gloria nodded slightly and said, "Kill." After that, she swept away in the direction that Du Dian had previously pointed.


    Du Di''an was surprised. He had heard the name of the "crocodile wolf" before. It was a large number of monsters. The hunting level reached "Thirteen", which was extremely terrifying. If a junior hunter like him encountered it alone. It is certain to die, even if an intermediate hunter encounters it, a careless person may be killed.


    The crowd followed behind Greilly, along the broken street, and quickly approached the positions of the three "crocodile-headed wolves".


    Du Di''an looked from a distance and saw that the three crocodile-headed wolves were very large, all of them were nearly three meters in size, with "wolf" in their names, and their appearances were similar to wolves, but their heads looked like crocodiles, and their mouths were protruding. , the canine teeth are sharp, staggered from the lips, showing a terrifying bite force.


    Seeing the appearance of these three monsters, Du Dian held his breath slightly.


    Whoosh!


    At this time, the figure of Gregory walking in front did not stop at all, and suddenly came out quickly, like a gray afterimage, at the moment she rushed out, Du Di''an suddenly felt that her smell had faded, to be precise It disappeared, only the smell that was emitted before gradually faded in the air, but she only had a faint smell attached to the armor, but there was no smell on her face and hands.


    Du Di was in shock, and at this moment, I saw Gregory quickly approaching the three crocodile wolves and appearing within their field of vision. The three crocodile-headed wolves also reacted, quickly turned around, and roared toward Gloria.


    Whoosh!


    The figure of Gregory suddenly jumped up from the gravel, flipped like a ghost, and passed by the first crocodile wolf. As soon as the figure landed, she jumped up to avoid the second crocodile wolf. He stomped on the head of the crocodile-headed wolf with the soles of his feet. The figure flipped over and jumped up behind it. There were two faint rays of silver light passing through the air.


    The next moment, her figure swayed horizontally and appeared in front of the third crocodile-headed wolf, calmly looking at the bloody mouth that it was biting over, her figure flashed suddenly and appeared on the other side like a ghost.


    At this moment, a sudden thud sounded, and the crocodile-headed wolf who was the first to pounce on Gloria, his jaw fell off his neck, his body fell, and blood spurted out, quickly dyeing the ground red.


    Du Dian was stunned.


    I saw the other two crocodile-headed wolves also fell one after the other, and the wounds were fatal from the lips to the neck and neck.

 Chapter 104: Movement

    At this time, Du Dian noticed that there was a slender strap on the outer thigh of Greili''s tight-fitting armor, with two inconspicuous black daggers inserted upside down, a few centimeters longer than ordinary daggers, close to the length of a dagger. The front end of the dagger is slightly curved, like a sickle, and blood drips from the tip, the blood of the crocodile wolf.


    "Assassin!" Du Di''an suddenly thought of Gloria''s occupation. During the months of training, he also heard some news about two famous senior hunters under the Mellon consortium. Their occupations were warriors and thieves. Gloria is a thief profession, but she has advanced twice, from a common pathfinder thief making traps, to a deadly assassin who kills without blinking an eye.


    Just like her professional code-ghost assassin!


    Every time you advance, you will get a title that matches your ability. It is said that Gregory''s magic mark ability comes from the "ghost eye", which is also a very terrifying monster. It has a strong vision, a flexible body, and understanding. Hiding its breath, it can approach its prey quietly, just like a poisonous snake lurking in the shadows, waiting for the opportunity to move when victory is certain.


    Previously, her scent suddenly subsided, most likely due to the effect of magic marks.


    Du Di''an was a little shocked. These three crocodile-headed wolf monsters were rated as hunting level thirteen. It can be seen that their combat effectiveness is much higher than the "Dreader" he met at the beginning, but they were killed instantly at the hands of this woman. Her vision couldn''t keep up with the speed of her shot, and the entire beheading process was smooth and smooth, fully demonstrating the opponent''s rich hunting experience.


    The wounds are all one-shot fatalities, and the point of entry happens to be the weakest spot!


    Gloria waved slightly, signaling everyone to follow.


    Seeing her so skillful, the other five stared at each other, a little stunned. After all, if it was them, these three crocodile-headed wolves needed their perfect cooperation to be able to kill them, and there was no room for a single mistake. What a huge gap between the hunters and them!


    "The smell of blood will attract other monsters. The Black Weaver is timid and vigilant and won''t come over easily. We will continue to chase." Gloria said in a low voice, leading the way ahead.


    The other five quickly followed.


    Du Dian glanced at the three corpses on the ground and couldn''t help saying: "Their corpses... Are they just left here?"


    "Little guy, the corpse of the crocodile wolf is not of high value, there is too little oil in the body, and there is a lot of radiation in the hair, so the value of the collection is not high. We should hurry up." A young man at the end said to Du Di''an, Due to the large range of smell that Du Di''an said earlier, he put aside his contempt for this newcomer and explained patiently.


    Du Dian came to a realization and followed the team.


    Following the footprints of the mountain lions left on the ground, everyone chased them all the way. Occasionally, the footprints disappeared. With Du Di''an''s sense of smell, new footprints can be easily found from a few hundred meters away. This is the advantage of smell tracking, and it is also a lot of hunters. enviable ability.


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    Along the way, everyone encountered several waves of monsters one after another, without anyone else taking action, Greilly could easily solve it by herself. However, when she met a poisonous lizard with a hunting level of "nineteen", Gloria still chose to take a detour and did not go forward to fight. But it is easy to cause a big movement, attract other monsters, or startle the black weaver.


    In addition to the venomous lizard, everyone also encountered a monster whose name could not be named. According to Gregory, it was a new type of monster and had not been named yet. If they killed it and brought the corpse back to the wall, it would get extra rewards.


    However, Glory didn''t plan to do much, gave up the hunt, and continued to hunt down the Black Weaver.


    "Rest awhile."


    The continuous rushing on the road has consumed a lot of physical strength in everyone. Glory has also consumed a lot of strength in the continuous battle. Seeing that it was noon, she stopped immediately and said to everyone: "Eat something and add it."


    Everyone listened to her instructions, all sat down to rest, took out the dry food and water in their backpacks, and ate.


    Du Di''an came in a hurry and didn''t bring anything, he could only watch other people enjoy lunch.


    "Here you are." Gloria glanced at him, took out a piece of dry food from her backpack, and threw it to Du Di''an, saying, "If I can find the Black Weaver, I owe you a favor."


    Du Di''an took over the dry food, was a little grateful, and said in amazement: "I owe me a favor? Isn''t it the order of the consortium to carry out the mission?"


    "It''s the consortium''s order, but the Black Weavers I hunted belong to me." Gloria did not hide it and said calmly: "So, instead of helping the consortium, it''s better to help me, like Once such a rare named monster is discovered, I have the priority. Unless I don¡¯t want it, the consortium will assign it to the other eight middle-level hunters. However, the black weaver¡¯s magic mark ability is exactly what I like. ."


    Du Dian came to his senses, thinking that he didn''t see this benefit in the contract at all, and most of them were only available to intermediate hunters. As for junior hunters like them, even if they hunted down named monsters, they had to turn in them, otherwise, there should be Punishment consequences. However, the named monsters are not something that their junior hunters can hunt down. For example, the "Dreaders" they encountered earlier were in their infancy, and it was entirely "luck" to meet them.


    "It''s what I can do, you are too polite." After understanding it, Du Di''an said politely.


    Gloria shook her head and said, "I just don''t like to feel that I owe others anything, so if I remember it in favor of others, it''s a deal for me. In the future, as long as you need it, I will do it within my psychological tolerance. Help you, of course, the premise is that the Black Weaver must be hunted this time."


    Du Di''s Anxin thought you were so direct, so he was no longer polite, and nodded: "I know, I will try my best."


    "Yeah." Gloria nodded slightly, and stopped talking, turning her head to look at the endless ruins in the distance, as if thinking about something on her mind.


    Du Dian quickly ate the dry food and took a break. Although Gloria promised to be a favor, he didn''t take it too seriously. From the three words just now, he felt that this woman was a very clear-cut person. So even if you get this favor, you can only ask her to do a little favor, and you can''t ask for a big deal.


    Suddenly, Du Dian moved his nose, agitated, stood up, and said, "I found it, Mountain Lion."


    The others were silently eating dry food and thinking about their thoughts. When they heard Du Dian''s words, they looked up and quickly put away the dry food, and stood up one after another. One of them hurriedly asked, "Where?"


    Du Dian pointed to the left and said, "It''s about twenty miles here."


    "Let''s go!" Gregory made a decisive decision, shook off the half-bitten dry food, and quickly ran in the direction pointed by Du Di''an.


    The crowd quickly followed behind.