Knights of the Wasteland Fortress

Chapter 6 End of Prologue
Next, Jiatu and Hena fought for another twelve rounds.

In the end, he lost to the girl with a score of "five wins and eight losses".

For such a result, Hena is satisfied.

And Jiatu didn't really care about it.

Because compared to the result of winning or losing, what he paid more attention to was the unique experience of using the "External Apparatus Brain".

In this regard, he felt that there was only one way to accurately express his feelings at this time——

That is similar to the "swelling feeling" when he "swiped his phone" in his previous life.

If Jiatu felt an illusory "information expansion" when he swiped his phone in his previous life, then the "completely real" "capacity expansion" brought to him by the external horror brain.

When using the Brain Outfit, he will involuntarily forget about his disabled body, and indulge in that near-perfect combat experience, like a proven warrior who can perfectly deal with any situation.

It was not beaten back to its original shape until the battery was exhausted.

Only by quitting the spirit competition system can he feel the huge gap between himself and the "genius"——

Weak body, dull nerves, weak intelligence...

And all of this can be solved for him with only a "external horror brain".

In the first few days when he first came into contact with the Brainstorm, Jiatu thought about the Brainstorm day and night, wishing he could become a student in the training school immediately, or wait for Hena to come back from school, and bring out the Brainstormer for him to use——

However, the failure of the "entrance examination" poured cold water on him.

As a disabled person, Jiatu even failed to pass the initial "5000-meter long-distance race" in the "entrance examination".

When he endured the blood oozing from his left foot and ran for more than 1000 meters, the test participants who set off with him were already standing at the finish line, looking at him and whispering.

Jiatu felt the strange eyes of the examiner and other candidates, and finally chose to give up.

Because he realized that even if he could bridge the gap between him and a normal person with the appearance of a terrifying brain, it would only make up his ability to the level of a normal person.

Compared with real normal people, he is still a "waste".

And for a "substandard product" like him, no one would be willing to devote resources and energy to him.

Except for "heterogeneous" like the Hera family, even he himself can't find a way out.

But Hera and Hena didn't give up on him.

Hera saw his loss and tried to comfort him. In the name of "self-training", Hena even took the precious armored brain out of the school and lent him to use.

Cato didn't know what it was for.

However, when he realized that this was their concern for him, there were only countless complicated emotions that could not be explained in his heart.

So after traveling to the wasteland world and being depressed for almost three months, he forcibly suppressed the disappointment in his heart and cheered himself up.

But he is also very clear that as a "disabled person", there is a limit to his efforts.

Someone like Aunt Wang or the old mourner would always jump out to remind him that waste is waste after all, and will rot in the cave at the bottom of this shelter sooner or later.

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Early the next morning, feeling the shaking of others, Jiatu woke up from his sleep.

He leaned against the pillar at the door of the tent, and opened his eyes in a daze.

But he saw the girl squatting in front of him, looking at him seriously.

"What's wrong……"

Jiatu propped himself up subconsciously, but saw the girl put down the water jug ​​and water bottle in her hand, and made a silent gesture:
"Mommy and Hedda haven't woken up yet, take it easy...I brought the water back."

There wasn't much emotion on the girl's face, and she stared at him with crimson eyes, like a standard "expressionless girl".

As the only pillar of the family, while helping her mother Hera bear too much pressure, there was also a faint shadow under her eye sockets.

This made Jiatu feel a little guilty, and couldn't help saying:

"I see, I will take care of Heda and Hera, so don't worry."

"Well, please excuse me."

The girl nodded and stood up.

She was carrying the wooden sticks and storage boxes she brought back from school, and she didn't pick up the water bottle on the ground again. It was wobbly and looked a little unstable:
"I'm counting on you for the recycled water. I'm going to be late for school soon. I'll tell Warren about the water bottle—I'll borrow it for a few days. There shouldn't be any problem."

"...Okay, don't push yourself too hard."

Jiatu was silent for half a second, but still nodded.

"Yes, got it."

The girl and Jiatu waved and trotted away.

The girl was carrying two sets of equipment on her back, and her steps seemed a bit heavy, but when she walked, she seemed to be used to this kind of burden.

When the girl's back disappeared behind the tent, Jiatu shook his head, propped up his cane, and carried the water bottle left by the girl into the tent twice.

After placing two jugs of circulating water next to the pile of debris, Jiatu walked to the mattress and touched the forehead of Hera who was still asleep.

"The fever has subsided... It seems that the medicine Hena brought back has worked..."

Jiatu stared at the red-haired woman in her sleep, feeling relieved.

Hera's high fever has completely subsided.

Even the blood on his face recovered a little.

On the quilt next to Hera, the little red-haired boy was curled up, breathing soundly and soundly.

There were no traces of use on the quilt around him, which meant that the girl, like herself, found an open space at random and slept all night.

The only difference is that he slept outside the tent; while the girl slept inside the tent.

Feeling the girl's indifference but caring, Jiatu silently set up his cane, went back outside the tent, and stretched vigorously towards the gradually brightening public lights.

During the past week of Hera's illness, Hena and Jiatu didn't sleep well. Yesterday, they finally borrowed the incomparably precious "medicine" and gave it to her.

Hera's fever subsided that night, which made both of them heave a sigh of relief, and at the same time, they had a good night's sleep after a long absence.

"But the shortfall caused by Hera's illness may not be so easy to fill..."

Jiatu thought in his mind that the lives of the four were barely maintained, but now that Hera had a serious illness, this family was directly emptied.

He even owed a large amount of favors and foreign debts.

Fortunately, there is no interest on these foreign debts, otherwise even he would not know what to do.

"Poor people can't get sick...otherwise it will kill people..."

Jiatu felt a little emotional, and leaning on a cane, he walked towards the waste yard.

(End of this chapter)