from Xingyuan

Chapter 35 035. A Little Thing

"There is a lake...cough cough! What kind of smell is this? It's so pungent..." Qiu Ran couldn't help asking because of choking cough.

"Idiot, in this cold and frozen world outside TM, can the lake that emits shimmering light be a normal lake?" Nomi lowered his body and stroked the snow on the ground with his head down.

"Car print."

Li Aoz saw it:
"The traces are very new. There was a convoy passing by not long ago-it seems that a car has separated from the queue."

"White Fang's gang?"

"Not sure. Possibly other rogues."

Li Aoz shook his head. It's hard to say such a thing. He took out the dagger and blade from his backpack and put it in his waist.

"You can't drive there!" Nomi said, "There is a landslide here, so you can't drive there. Take a closer look."

"You look at the car here. Let's go over there."

Li Aoz gave some instructions, then put camouflage on the vehicle, and walked towards the lake with Nomi.

The storm in the outside world is too strong, and the soil is not firm. Even with a map, it is not easy to use. The wind blows people away, and it is common for the hillside to turn into a depression overnight.

Judging from the traces of the tires, there should not be many people, and it cannot be ruled out that wanderers from outside are looking for warm areas to escape the cold.

After walking a few hundred steps, they saw the truth of Shimmering Lake: from the hills in the distance, ten pipelines the size of trucks protruded from the mountain pass, continuously discharging dirty and hot waste water. The height of ten meters poured down, and all kinds of garbage, waste products, filth, and corpse residue were naturally washed and piled up on the shore, forming a bank.

"I rely on... frost-plated animals!"

Nomi scolded:

"Look! Over there—what's that?!"

Li Aoz looked in the direction of her fingertips: beside a rock, there were several discarded tanks piled up in a mess, and a striking yellow-black radiation sign was clearly engraved on it.

"Radiation waste."

Lee Oz said:

"It turned out to be a frost-plating sewage pipe. It's not unusual. There used to be a country that lived a good life and dumped nuclear waste water into the sea."

"This group of bastards, beasts, pigs and dogs are not as good as pigs and dogs, wolf-hearted scum! It is because the Four Kingdoms have been doing this kind of thing to the outside world that Azure Star has become like this!"

Nomi held the wrench, filled with righteous indignation:
"Fuck! What are you saying about human rights and morality, industrial development, sacrifices are necessary-the people of the four countries have sucked the blood of the people of the entire Azure Planet to achieve hypocritical and disgusting prosperity... Just like this, they still call our Rose Army terrorists, ( Purify the society) Frost-plated Tianhuan Zhengxu Red Arrow! One counts as one, and the four countries are the biggest terrorists!"

Li Aoz didn't deny that although Nomi's words were a bit harsh, they were right.

He checked the surrounding environment. Someone had indeed been here, and he left after a short rest to keep warm.

"Someone is over here, sitting on this wrecked TV set, he must have just entered the waste water, left a puddle of vomit here, with blood clots in it... probably went to the waste water to eat .”

Li Aoz walked along the remaining footprints on the ground, and found a corpse in a short while, with a self-assembled car next to it.

Just a wanderer, he vomited everywhere, and in pain, shot himself in the head.

Li Aoz stabbed the corpse's eye socket with a knife, confirmed the kill, and then turned over the corpse. The opponent's equipment was very bad, not as good as his own.

Nomi stood behind him, carefully searching around.

Fortunately, he didn't have a companion, so Nomi boarded the assembled car and searched back and forth for a while, only to find a torn book of "Reading Stories for Children" and a paintbrush the size of a little finger.

After flipping through it for a while, Nomi threw the book out, and one of the pages with the illustration of a gentle woman was covered with various disgusting parts, and there were some yellow and white stains... Nomi didn't have to think about it, just Know what the owner of the book did to this thing.

Hearing that Li Aoz had analyzed the cause of death of the deceased, Nomi muttered:
"What kind of food can there be... What an idiot."

"It's dead, don't be so malicious-this car still has 42 liters of gas, go get the oil drum in the car, and drain the oil."

"Got it." Nomi rubbed his hands hard, ran back to the car, fetched straws and oil barrels, and collected the remaining fuel in the car.

"By the way, what was found on the body?"

"I found a letter. His name should be Benedicton. He heard from his friends that his mother was killed by robbers, so he was going to join the Rose Army for revenge. There are also relics given to him by his mother: A ring made out of a soda can ring."

Since the mission was not triggered, Li Aoz threw the letter into a ball and threw it away. The ring relic made of a can ring was meaningless garbage, and he threw it directly into the waste water lake.

[Your behavior makes Nomi's favorability towards you -3]

"Ok?"

Li Aoz glanced at Nomi, she looked expressionless, but she actually cared about such things.

Although the favorability has been reduced a little, Li Aoz doesn't care much about it.

Anyway, Nomi is just a temporary teammate he fooled over, and he can kick him away when he has enough use.

"Benny... Poor guy, but the Rose Army has no time to deal with bandits from outside."

Nomi shook his head:
"As long as the four countries are defeated, everything will be fine."

"Behind the rise of every country is the history of blood and tears of another group of people. From ancient times to the present, empires have never been sacred." Li Aoz shrugged.

"Then smash and tear up all these empires, and step on them," Nomi said.

"and then?"

Li Aoz said casually:
"And then you find that in order to manage enough power to overthrow the empire, you have to create a stronger, more stable imperial regime. Repeatedly - history proves that human beings are human beings, and they will never surpass history."

"I can't think of that much."

Nomi shook his head:
"I'm just a stupid idiot. The instructors say that I'm always doing nothing, just a little wild cat who can fight and kill."

"But even a wild cat like me can't tolerate the world becoming like this now."

"I don't know if other people will have a better choice, maybe there will be tyrants, there will be new officials, and the world will be worse-but I would rather make hundreds of mistakes than maintain the status quo."

She stared forward, her one eye full of determination:
"Under this red and black sky is a world buried in white snow and yellow sand, a world full of despair."

She turned her head and looked at Li Aozzi:

"Don't think of all this too indifferently, this is our world. Whether it's me or you, aren't you also a part of this world?"

"This is not a nonsense game. For us outsiders, the Rose Army, no, all those who resist the Four Kingdoms are our beliefs."

"In fact, people with discerning eyes know that it is impossible to fight against the Four Kingdoms—but we have to do this. Even if we just use our teeth and nails to bring a little pain to the Four Kingdoms, this kind of struggle process is enough to prove to them:"

"We, we reptiles who are struggling to survive in the outside world, are just as human beings and life as those people in the Four Kingdoms who are blowing on the heat, eating steamed buns, watching TV and reading books."

(End of this chapter)