Immortal, My Desperate Journey at 40k

Chapter 645 A strange world

Everything on the steel coast that is blown by the sea breeze, including the radiation and pollutants it carries, is already commonplace for local creatures, but for humans in this world, this not-so-violent sea breeze can instantly take the life of a human who is not wearing any protective clothing.

And in this dangerous place, there are still humans. They are scavengers on this ancient battlefield. As for the origin of this ancient battlefield, we have to find the basis from the humans and thousands of years of legends in this world.

Legend has it that in the darkest age, the golden fleet from the sky saved the world from the darkest age, but the war of salvation of this world also left an eternal wound on this world. The plasma light descended from the sky and brought radiation and heat to this world, and this ancient battlefield became the place where scavengers from generation to generation sought daily necessities in this world.

Those people living in the giant steel cities will recycle these technological creations found on the ancient battlefields from the hands of scavengers, and the scavengers also rely on this kind of transaction to exchange for the supplies they need to survive in this world. Food, medicine, and water are all part of the exchange. Those people living in the cities will also frantically lower the prices to the scavengers for some things. Therefore, the life of the scavengers in this world is indeed very difficult.

Under this horrible working environment, the deformity rate, disease rate and mortality rate of their offspring are extremely high. Most of the scavengers do not live beyond the age of 30, but everyone still tries their best to stay alive.

And now on this coast, a little girl is pulling a cart that is much bigger than her, constantly searching for something that can be exchanged for food with the people in the city. Legend has it that in that war, the former ruler of this world, the brutal tyrant, concentrated all his troops here, and it is because of this that all the technological creations of the tyrant's army on this ancient battlefield are here.

There were so many of them that scavengers have been searching for tens of thousands of years without success in finding all the technological artifacts in this area. The little girl was pulling a cart that was much bigger than herself, and she was constantly searching for what she wanted among the pile of ruins.

The sound of the protective suit stepping on the ground was totally inconsistent with the size of the chess piece. The heavy lead plate, while isolating the radiation, also made her movements extremely clumsy. Her breathing through the gas mask seemed heavy. In fact, the filters of this gas mask were all collected by scavengers.

The durability of this thing is a matter of opinion. In this high-intensity radiation environment, the filters of these gas masks can only work for about three minutes. Every three minutes, the little girl will replace the filters of her gas mask. Now she only hopes to find something more valuable.

Otherwise, her action this time would become a complete loss-making business. Just as she was constantly looking for usable technological creations, she suddenly saw a golden object under the dim sunlight. That object seemed to be the most incongruous thing in this gray world, as if it should not be here.

But this thing did appear. The girl had never seen that golden light before. She had seen golden things before. That was the dome of what the people in the city called the State Church. It was said that all the residents in the city would receive baptism in that church when they were born and convert to a sect called the State Church.

But the girl never thought that she was the same as those city people, because living in this world was already very difficult, and thinking so much would only bring herself some unnecessary confusion.

After a moment of confusion and a little surprise, the girl immediately ran to the golden thing. She looked at the huge golden creature that looked like a giant. She saw the gems shining with red and blue light on it at a glance. In her impression, the people in the city loved this kind of stone with a strange luster very much.

If she could sell these stones to the rich ladies or nobles in the city, she could definitely earn dozens of kilograms of energy bars, because she knew that a scavenger had done this before. The scavenger found a piece of metal fragment inlaid with a red stone called ruby ​​on the ancient battlefield, and the scavenger got dozens of kilograms of energy bars with this thing.

Thinking of this, the girl's heart blossomed with joy. She seemed to be very lucky today. She and her family would have guaranteed food for a long time. Just as she took out the cutting tools from her cart and was about to cut the huge human-shaped object and put it away in the cart, the huge human-shaped object suddenly moved, one of its hands rose from the ground, and then stared at her motionlessly.

The girl looked at the humanoid object that suddenly sat up. She stared at him stupidly for a long time with the cutting tool in her hand, and then she screamed. It was obvious that the little girl was scared. The sharpness of her voice could be heard through the heavy gas mask.

"Where is this? Or which world is this?"

Wang Ming looked at the petite figure in front of him, listened to the terrified voice coming through the gas mask, and asked the figure in Low Gothic.

But the girl did not respond to Wang Ming's question. She could not understand Low Gothic at all. The language of this world is the traditional language of this world. It is also a kind of Low Gothic. However, compared with some widely spread Low Gothic, this language is not widely spread in the empire. It is only limited to the local world where this language is used.

The lowest-level civilians in this world have no idea how to communicate with the imperial people from other places. They don't even speak the same language.

Wang Ming looked at the person in front of him and found that after hearing what he said, she did not answer any of his questions. He immediately realized that something was wrong. The humans in this world did not even know how to use the most widely used Low Gothic, so they could only use translation tools to communicate. It was also very depressing to say that there was actually no completely unified language in the countless worlds of the empire.

Apart from the Gothic language used by the nobles and the imperial officials, basically the common people in every world have their own language. It can be said that humans who can speak the official Gothic language of the empire are rare in every world. They are either nobles, high-ranking officials, or merchants from other planets.

The lower-class civilians on these worlds do not use the official language of the empire. This situation made Wang Ming very uncomfortable for a while. He had issued a decree on Holy Terra to make a unified language, but due to some reasons, some imperial traditions, this decree was not implemented. Come to think of it, in the tradition of the empire, High Gothic is not just a language for unified communication, it also represents power and is a symbol of the privileged class of the imperial nobility.

Wang Ming looked at the human in front of him. He could tell from her previous voice that this was a woman, and didn't look very old. He could only take her out of this dangerous place first, and then think about how to get anything out of her.

Wang Ming's tactical eyepiece displayed various surrounding environments. He already knew how bad the surrounding environment was. The radiation levels around him had reached a point where, if he was not wearing protective clothing, a normal human being would turn into a pool of thick water in just a few minutes in such an environment.

After Wang Ming thought of this, he directly grabbed the little girl in front of him, then looked at the surrounding environment, ignoring the screams of the little girl after she was caught. Moreover, after Wang Ming looked at the cart beside him, he pulled the cart up. After all, he knew that for the vast majority of the people of the empire, their tools of labor were actually more important than their lives in some cases.

Although he would definitely change the environment of this world and fundamentally improve the people's livelihood after arriving in this world, it was impossible for him to let an imperial civilian lose her living tools under the current circumstances. But it would be the same if they no longer needed these jobs in the future.

Wang Ming was carrying a little girl and a cart, and he judged where to go based on the weakening of the radiation. He moved very fast, but he also took into account the screaming little girl in his arms. In this way, Wang Ming ran out of the radiation zone with the child.

It was unknown how long it had passed before Wang Ming finally found a place without any radiation. After putting the numb girl and the cart away, he took out a huge spray can and began to spray the girl. This was a chemical that eliminated radiation, and it was used very frequently in the post-war reconstruction of the Human Federation.

After all, in certain situations, when the Human Federation conquers a world, the radiation index on those worlds will be very huge. In this case, this kind of thing will be very useful in post-war reconstruction work.

After eliminating the effects of radiation on the girl, he directly took off the gas mask on the girl's head, then took out something like a collar and put it around the girl's neck.

Wang Ming had used this kind of thing before, but that was when he had not yet learned High Gothic. Although Wang Ming spent three days learning High Gothic in a short period of time afterwards, this thing still helped him a lot during the time when he had not learned High Gothic.

"Child, do you understand now? Do you know where this is?"

Wang Ming looked at the little girl in front of him who kept patting her chest, as if to comfort her frightened emotions. He asked her in High Gothic. After hearing what Wang Ming said, the girl patted her ears and head in surprise. She was very surprised that she suddenly understood these languages ​​that she had never heard before.

"This is the edge of the ruins of an ancient battlefield. Who are you?"

When the girl saw Wang Ming, her mouth moved a few times, and then the low Gothic language of the local world that she was speaking was immediately translated. With the help of simultaneous interpretation, Wang Ming's communication with the humans in this world was completely free of any obstacles.

"Child, be more specific. Which star... which world? It's the planet."

Wang Ming looked at the girl in front of him. He saw the girl's white hair and pink eyes, which were obviously symptoms of albinism. Considering the extremely high radiation level in the previous environment, it was not surprising that this kind of mutation disease occurred. However, it seemed that the environment at the bottom of this world should be relatively good. At least this girl should have parents taking care of her.

Otherwise, in such an extremely harsh environment, she would not have been able to live to this age. However, this kind of good is only slightly better than in other worlds. After all, such a young child has to go to such a dangerous place to work. It can also be seen that the living environment of people in this world is very bad.

"The world... isn't that the world? And what is a planet? What is that?"

The girl looked at Wang Ming in front of her. The world and planet that she and Wang Ming talked about were very unfamiliar. She had heard the word "world", but as for the word "planet...", she had never heard of this word and didn't know what this word meant?
"Sorry kid, I'm too impatient. Will you take me to your nest?"

Wang Ming looked at the child in front of him and realized how anxious he was. He shouldn't have asked the child such a question directly. You know, with the educational environment of the empire, 80% or 90% of the lower-class civilians in the empire all graduated from prenatal education. In their lives, there is no concept of planets or the world at all.

"Hive? Are they those huge cities? I've heard from adults that the name of those huge cities is Hive. Are you from those cities? I can take you there. I hope to get a gem from you as a reward. If this request is a bit too much..., you can also give me some food, just a little bit..."

The girl looked at Wang Ming and moved her body closer to her cart for a while. After hearing Wang Ming's words, she immediately realized that the giant in front of her might be a city dweller. She hoped to take the giant back to the city as a deal so that she could get some food.