Doomsday Totem

Chapter 366 Destiny
At four o'clock in the morning, the sky was dark, and the moon and stars were hidden in the clouds.Faintly illuminated by street lamps on the dirt and snow-covered streets, a middle-aged man with a wide body and a fat body was panting and walking forward with shaky steps.

A few minutes later, he walked into an open space in the center of the town and came to the wall of a stone tower.Looking up, this stone tower is about three to forty meters high, twenty meters in diameter, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, made of all gray stone, it looks cold and mysterious under the night.This is the landmark building of Huita Town - Tongtian Huita.

The outer periphery of the gray tower is a circle of stone walls. At this moment, the black lacquered iron fence gate is closed tightly. Uncle Nuo swept out a small clean place on the steps beside the gate, sat down, and then lost his mind. Looking ahead, he fell into a daze.

Time passed by quietly, and the sky gradually became white, and then the sun rose, and the vast sunlight awakened the earth.In the town ahead, it gradually became lively. There were chefs selling bread, hawkers selling pancakes, and aunts selling milk and jam...

In the southern cemetery, a small amount of land north of the Sewage River can barely grow some crops, providing a little wilted vegetables and fruits for the residents here.Most of the food here is airlifted from the western continent.The World Council and the Temple worked together to drive the worms to this barren land, using them to control the number of mutated creatures in the heavy radiation area, and to collect the energy crystals of the mutated creatures to extract the precious "Radium 2315". For them to make high-end potions.The main ingredient of the famous fire of life is radium 2315.

To the north of the Sewage River, it is controlled by noble exiles and worms who are close to the forces of Yincheng. They are the minions of the World Conference and the Temple.The resources transported from the western continent are basically managed and distributed by them.Although they were cruel and selfish, they also brought a certain order to this chaotic place, and gave the honest and hardworking people a chance.However, it is just an existence without dignity, just like the serfs in ancient times, which has nothing to do with happiness and has nothing to do with happiness.

The south of the Sewage River is a medium radiation area.In the ruins of that city, the radiation concentration in people's bodies will gradually increase, and only the worms can survive there for a long time.It was a disorderly land, and various gathering places were scattered in it, including strongholds made up of predators, tribes made up of hunters, and a large gathering place of insects controlled by one force.

There, the fist is the law of everything, and blood and violence are staged every moment, and the weak can only become the property of the strong.However, it is relatively free there. In order to breathe the air of freedom, many worms would rather devote themselves to the dangerous environment, and there are many kind leaders among them.They usually form their own strongholds and establish their own rules, the strong protect the weak, and the weak provide services for the strong.

Further south of the medium radiation area is the high radiation area that stretches for thousands of miles, where black moss is everywhere, fungi are overgrown, and spores carrying radiation permeate the air.In that kind of place, even a powerful worm cannot stay for a long time.However, some locations in the high-radiation area have low radiation levels and can be used as human gathering places, such as the Blackwater Lake stronghold, which is one of them.

Between thoughts, the sun gradually rose into the sky.At ten o'clock in the morning, the exiled nobles living in the gray tower woke up one after another, washed up, had breakfast, and started their day's work.

At [-]:[-], Uncle Nuo finally waited for the notice from the guard: "Baron Joel is out on business, please come back later."

"I...I'm here to pay back..." Uncle Nuo pinched the hem of his clothes and stammered.

"Didn't you understand! I said Baron Joel is not here, so I told you to come back later!" The guard said impatiently.

"I..." "Go away!"

Amid the yelling and cursing of the guards, Uncle Nuo left the gray tower dejectedly, and sat at the foot of a stone house not far away, staring intently at the gate, trying to find Brown Joel.

However, several hours passed, and in the evening, when the sun went down, there was still no trace of the other party.Uncle Nuo didn't dare to leave, but asked the owner of the house for some water, and then bought a piece of dry bread, squatting in the corner to eat while watching the gate of the gray tower.

Day and night passed...

At ten o'clock the next morning, he still hadn't seen the aristocratic lord, so he had no choice but to ask the guards again.Unexpectedly, the guard opened the door and told him that Baron Joel was back and asked him to meet in the office on the third floor.

Suddenly, an inexplicable sense of crisis emerged spontaneously.He had not closed his eyes all day and all night, and was sure that Mr. Brown had not passed the door.This means that the other party has never left the Gray Tower, and he just deliberately made excuses yesterday and did not want to see him.The purpose of the other party's doing so is obviously to delay the repayment date.

As expected, when Brown Joel met, he was accused of breaking the agreement.

"Sir, I came early yesterday morning, but they said you were out." Uncle Nuo explained with his head down.

"I didn't go out yesterday, and I've been here all this time." Then, Brown frowned, and his voice sternly reprimanded, "I can understand that you don't have any money to pay back, but lying to a nobleman is a felony!"

"But... but the guard at the gate said you... said you went out..." Uncle Nuo said submissively.

"Which guard, call him over and let's confront him face to face." Brown said in a deep voice with a dark face.

"I..." For a moment, Uncle Nuo didn't know how to explain.Not to mention whether he could find the guard, he couldn't even remember the guard's appearance clearly, and even if he found it, others would just say "I didn't say that" and just perfunctory it.

Seeing Uncle Nuo's nervous expression, Brown suddenly smiled and said gently: "Actually, it's nothing. Let Miss Susan come here to work and study, it will be helpful to her life..." He opened his hands , said, "Look, how comfortable the environment here is, how decent people come and go, and she can still eat fresh vegetables, fruits, and all kinds of delicacies every day, you should be happy for her, she is really lucky child..."

Brown said persuasively, walked to Uncle Nuo, put his shoulders on his shoulders, brought him to the wine cabinet, opened a bottle of Li Qi VSOP, filled half of it in a crystal glass, and handed it to him.

"Come, try the fine wine that was shipped from the West yesterday." Brown said with a smile, like a wolf watching its prey.

"But..." Uncle Nuo took a sip of his wine cautiously, and was about to speak, but was interrupted by the other party.

"Mr. Arnold, I assure you as a nobleman that I will treat Miss Susan well. Please rest assured." Brown said seriously with a serious face.

"Sir, I've...already collected enough money...I think..." Uncle Nuo gritted his teeth, took a big sip of wine, the strong liquor immediately dripped into his throat, he was immediately refreshed, summoned up the courage to speak loudly Refused, "I hope Susan can stay by my side, thank you for your kindness!"

"Are you sure?" Brown asked with his eyes fixed.

"Sir, I'm sure..." As soon as Uncle Nuo opened his mouth, his vision went dark.There was only a muffled sound of "pa", his fat body flew out and fell heavily on the ground, the money bag in his hand fell out, and all kinds of coins were scattered all over the ground.

"According to the contract, the liquidated damages is one thousand gold coins. If you can't make up the amount by tomorrow, bring your daughter here, otherwise..." Brown threatened viciously, "Death!" , Brown pulled Uncle Nuo by his collar, patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "Okay, you can get out now."

After a while, Uncle Nuo, with dull eyes and depressed spirit, walked out of the gray tower.After an unknown amount of time, he returned to the bar door like a walking dead.Along the way, he didn't know how he got back.He didn't dare to think about what a tragic fate he would meet Su Shan.

Pushing the door open, the daughter was playing with Ethan, just like last time, begging him to tell an adventure story.Seeing her father coming back, Susan pushed Ethan with a smile, turned around and greeted him, took off the backpack and coat for her father, and hung them on the hangers in the bar.

"What's the matter?" Seemingly seeing Uncle Nuo's melancholy, Ethan asked with concern.

"No... nothing..." Uncle Nuo waved his hand and sat down at the round table.It's not that he doesn't want to say it, but it's useless to say it. It has no meaning except to increase the trouble of the other party.What's more, they are just friends who met by chance.Even if the other party is willing, it is impossible for him to ask Ethan to fight against an exiled nobleman, or even against the entire Gray Tower, and the world of Silver City behind the Gray Tower.The only thing he can do now is to accept his fate and pin everything on the kindness of the noble lord.Perhaps, he just hasn't touched a woman for too long, so he is so impatient.I heard that noble gentlemen are well-bred, humble and polite. If Susan can marry him or become his lover, it won't necessarily be a bad thing.

Perhaps, she can learn a lot of useful knowledge, and in the future she will become a small clerk in Huita Town, or even a small official, with a decent job, a stable income, and a stable residence.Even lovers and servants are not bad, at least they live better than most girls here.

Living here, if she is unlucky one day and is taken to the south by refugees, she will not live for a few days.Here, good looks are both an advantage and a source of pain.Those worms in the south have a much higher desire for women than ordinary humans. If Susan falls into their hands, she will be eaten up and wiped out very quickly, not even bones left.

If she lived in the gray tower, at least she would not have to worry about such a fate.

With any luck...

In this way, Uncle Nuo gradually convinced himself to accept this fate.

(End of this chapter)