The Riddler Get Out of Terra

Chapter 23 Mephistopheles and Faust

"Teacher, are they the pickets?"

Ino asked Jolon in a low voice.

The infected pickets are notorious in the Ursus tundra. In the name of searching for infected people, they will scrape off everyone in the tundra like locusts. No matter whether they are infected or not, good or evil, as long as they are targeted, no one can Escape the fate of being threatened and blackmailed.

After Ino was infected, the picket team became a nightmare that he couldn't help but wake up late at night. There are a few proverbs in the tundra that are still fresh in his memory:

If the grain harvest is abundant, people will say "there is as much food as the infected people who were executed by pickets"; if it is cold and the harvest is pitifully small, people will say "there is as little as if the pickets searched"; when they encounter When it comes to natural disasters, people will comfort themselves by saying, "At least they weren't targeted by the pickets."

They are such a bunch of people who hate dogs.

The city hall captured infected slaves in the city and sent them to serve in the mines. The pickets searched for infected people in the wild where the city hall could not reach, and either executed them or threw them into the mines. No one was spared.

But the flow of funds in Ursus is countless. Whether it is the nobles or the city hall, the high-ranking men are making money in clever ways and have little interest in providing funds to the pickets - or in other words, those who should be given to the pickets. Money went into the pockets of the old men.

But if they need such a pair of black gloves to hunt down crimes and maintain high pressure, what should they do?

I don’t know which little genius slapped his head: Since the food production of the mobile city using Originium technology is so abundant, why do you care about the mud-legged people who can’t survive in the wasteland?

After all, the pickets are searching for infected people for their own safety. Wouldn't it be better to let the pickets dig out the money and food from the hands of the mud-legged people?

So in Ursus, there are many pickets that are scary to both infected people and natural disasters.

Now, this picket team is eyeing Base No. [-], which appears inexplicably in a remote area.

Ino's teeth chattered loudly - he was obviously affected by the rumored picket legend, so much so that his Origin Stone skills were almost out of control, and he subconsciously wanted to use them.

But Jorum stopped him.

Draco bent down and stretched out his hand, pulling up Ino's small palm. With a thought, warm heat was transferred along the palm of his hand.

Ino's trembling body calmed down. He held Qiao Lun's hand that was constantly transferring heat, and the uncontrollable cold fear in his heart calmed down.

Jorun and Ino walked openly into the reception room in such a quiet atmosphere. The pickets who were arguing with another Tartarus in the room were subconsciously stunned. They looked at the two identical dragons in disbelief. Many people also discovered Ino, and their eyes lit up with the uncovered Originium particles on the boy:

"Harboring infected people!!"

The leader shouted with joy and came with him. The team members, who were already impatient with Tartarus's perfunctory and delaying, stood upright before hearing this shout. Their eyes flashed with vicious light, and they were sharp. The sharp second-hand military weapons shone with a cold light.

Great handle!Kill the infected person, and then kill the two Vaifans together, and directly dig out the money from every household in this town!

More than one person has had such vicious thoughts popping up in his mind without thinking.

Then, the red dragon opened its eyes.

His bright red pupils were filled with golden light, and great majesty surged out from the lava-like blazing light like a sword!

The ancient majesty roared again in the world, and the menacing picket team changed its shape before it lasted even half a step.

There was great resistance in the air. Before the picket nearest Jolon and Ino could get closer, he fell to the ground with a purple face - where he fell, the gel-like and tough air formed a clear human shape. The mark slowly returns under the power of time.

No one on the picket team can make a sound anymore. Just like the air that is blocking everyone's movement at this moment, the gel-like inert and sinking gas breaks into their lungs, filling every alveoli, but cannot provide a little bit of humanity. The oxidizing agent it relies on for survival.

The pickets who rushed towards Tartarus sitting in the house were already covering their necks in pain. The protection similar to that of beetles could not provide them with any safety. When the weapons were released, the tough steel creations would also melt in the gel. It hung there for a long time before slowly falling.

The leader's thighs were moving wildly as if they were cramping. His cheeks were purple and his bloodshot eyes were staring at Qiao Lun and Ino who were standing in front of him in just a moment. He moved his lips with difficulty, as if he wanted to say something. What, only to find that the inert airgel no longer supports the function of transmitting vibrations.

So his legs twitched, and his muscles budded under the thick second-hand military coat——

Whoosh! ! !

A harsh friction sound sounded from the crook of his thigh, and a sharp crossbow arrow broke away from the black cloth and shot towards Qiao Lun's chest when Shi Shiran let go of Ino's left hand.

It's just that... in the completely inert air gel at this moment, the matte-processed crossbow arrow, like its owner, can only move at a slow and distinct speed in the midst of an emergency.

The friction was as harsh as the grinding sound, and Ino could even smell the air gel that generated heat from the friction.

But in fact, there was nothing. From the time Jo Lun released the Originium Gene and took down all the pickets to the leader's final struggle, less than ten seconds had passed. Even if Ino now approached the arrow that had lost power and started to slowly fall to the ground, It's just that I can feel the cold air of Ursus.

Facts have proven that even a Super Terran is like a fish out of water after losing air - he only jumps a few times at most, then struggles hard in the air, and finally loses consciousness weakly.

From the moment Jolon let go of Ino's hand to when all the picket members fell to the ground one by one, the whole process was like mercury pouring down the ground, so smooth that it was like an interesting drama.

But Ino couldn't talk about these things as things that hadn't happened. His heartbeat was so fast that his whole chest was resonating, fear and joy mixed together.

Qiao Lun's action in subduing the pickets was too easy. He just stood motionless, and the devil in Ino's eyes lost his ability to move.

Is it okay for me to have sex with you?

He thought unconsciously, but in an instant he laughed at himself:

The reason why the teacher can do it is because the teacher is better than everyone else, a little bitch like Ino

How could a child have such a dream?

"It doesn't mean who can do it, but I'm not the only one who can do it," Qiao Lun found a clue from Ino's face:

"As long as he undergoes sufficient training, perfects the personal formula of Origin Stone skills, and pairs it with one or two powerful high-level staffs, Ino can be like me in the future."

Little Li Boli's eyes suddenly lit up.

Tartarus, who was sitting in the room smiling and watching the picket members fall to the ground one after another, clapped his hands. Under the control of his ability, the crisp sound of the collision was accurately transmitted to the living room two houses away. After a while, a group of people dressed in An Ursus man wearing the same uniform as the slave-catching team came in.

In the Ursus tundra, slave-catching teams often cooperate with pickets. The latter want to make a buck when catching infected people who are unable to resist, but do not want to waste time going to the transfer station to bargain for prices. At this time, the slave-catching team is good at this. The former of Tao will jump out and provide cooperation.

Anyway, the transfer station doesn't care where the slaves come from. After all, they count them by head and don't care about the method of capture.

As a result, the two teams that people hate and dogs hate in the tundra naturally merged and mutually achieved success, which provided sufficient conditions for the formation of the current situation where the people of the Ursus tundra were living in dire straits.

The pickets were already at a loss, and the slave-catching team, which was not as well equipped as them, should have left immediately and ran away, but the team that came out in a well-behaved manner was completely different from the normal situation.

They saluted Joram and Tartarus one by one, not at all surprised by the two identical individuals.

The leader, who was dressed the same as the other team members except for wearing a badge on the outside of his cloak, physically dragged all the pickets away. Many people even made a grudge against these villains who were supposed to be colluding before dragging them away. Walk.

They talked and laughed during the period, and when they left, they promised Qiao Lun that they would immediately treat these people as "good goods" and send them to the transfer station to "that adult" there.

——These people are the No. [-] team trained by Qiao Lun. They not only serve as messengers between different bases, but also report the movements of the slave catching team and picket team, assisting Qiao Lun in reducing the number of these scum within the "joint force range" "Inside.

Many people could even recognize Ino. This thin and skinny infected boy following Jo Lun could not arouse any strange emotions among the entire team of infected people. Many people even handed Ino some candies. As a gift.

Little Li Boli first handed these to his teacher. After Qiao Lun picked one randomly, he also selected one and unpacked it, and tasted it happily.

——The various materials purchased by the transfer station at internal prices from the mobile city flowed to the base through the "contributions" of the pickets and slave-catching teams.

Chapter 24 Mephistopheles and Faust

"Sasha Sasha, I got some candy here!"

At seven o'clock in the evening, when the moonlight of Ursus once again enveloped the entire town, Ino activated the spar by the fire and excitedly held a handful of small candies in front of his chest to show off a team of brothers and sisters to his friends. A gift to yourself.

"Well, I saw it. You can also eat it here. As long as I pass the training, the teacher will reward me with a lot of candies."

Sasha's low voice came from the other side - it was not that Jolon had requested it, but that since the awakening of the Origin Stone skills, Sasha began to dislike making noise like Phedea's beast brother, even when communicating with friends. , and lower the volume as much as possible.

"So I can get candy at the transfer station next week?"

Ino was accustomed to her friend's loud voice. Little Li Boli opened another package and stuffed the fruit-flavored hard candy into his mouth.

"What a pity," he said vaguely, "I originally wanted to take these candies back as gifts for you."

"Eno, what happened to you today? Something seems wrong with you."

Sasha discovered a problem from Ino's reaction. Little Liboli's unusual excitement and red cheeks were no secret to Sasha, whose homework tonight was to improve his observation skills. He instinctively thought of the dangers in the outside world.

Ino was silent for a while, and then he composed his words while Sasha waited patiently:

"Today we encountered a picket of infected people. Yes, it's the picket we heard from the adults in the town. They discovered Base No. [-] and want to extort food here and search for infected people."

"What about you? You haven't been discovered by them, right?" Sasha sat up straight and asked subconsciously.

"No," Ino shook his head. He slowly chewed the candy and felt the sweetness becoming clearer between his lips and teeth. He finally lost his enthusiasm and excitement and exposed his vulnerable side in front of his close friends:

"It took the teacher less than ten seconds to make everyone unconscious. The brothers and sisters of Messenger Team [-] quickly dragged them down. I watched the interrogation all afternoon."

Thinking of the cruel interrogation in the afternoon, Ino, who volunteered to take notes at the time, had to open another candy and throw it into his mouth to calm down the bitterness caused by the truth.

"Sasha, infected people are really not treated as humans in the tundra," he lowered his head and stared at the burning flames, and said to Sasha: "The pickets treat infected people as pigs, and ordinary villagers also treat us as pests. .”

"The brothers and sisters have pried the location of more than 50 villages from the pickets. On average, they execute and arrest more than a hundred infected people in the villages every year. The villages themselves are even persecuting us."

"As long as you are infected with the Origin Stone, you will naturally be inferior to normal people. Those villagers were tortured by the pickets until they could no longer survive, but they were unable to face the ever-changing blades of the army.

If you dare to say more, you will attack innocent infected people. "

The sinful and disgusting record made Ino feel sick to his stomach. He bit into the hard candy that had not been soaked with saliva, chewed it and swallowed it. He took out another toffee, tore open the package and threw it into his mouth.

"I heard them say that there will be a strong warehouse in those villages that has always been empty. Whenever an infected person who knows nothing about comes, the villagers who are afraid of the pickets causing trouble will trick them into entering, and then lock the door. Let the infected people who know nothing about it starve to death.

The pickets executed only a dozen infected people a month, but in the warehouses of those villages, mottled blood stains and bloody fingernails dug out of the brick walls were endless. "

The cruel and vicious murder process of the tundra people in the village was explained word by word by Ino to his close friend. He stared at Sasha across the light screen in confusion, and the confusion in his eyes could no longer be concealed:

"The teacher said we should unite with every persecuted Ursus. I originally thought what the teacher said was right, but today, I began to doubt the correctness of our actions."

"Are those Ursus villagers really worth saving? They are clearly being persecuted by pickets, but they dare not raise weapons against the real enemy. Instead, they hatefully throw hatred and crime at innocent and vulnerable infected people. Who are they good people? Why should we cooperate with them or even rescue them?”

Sasha's eyes flashed, and he also entered into thinking. Ino's harvest in one day was so great that it shattered the immature outlook of the two children, so that they began to think about the meaning of action.

But Ino's narration today is not over yet. He leaned on the back of the chair, leaning on the chair with both hands, and counted the cracks in the wooden boards on the roof even more confusedly:

"But that's not all my questions today. The teacher asked my brothers and sisters to tell me what infected people should pay attention to in the wilderness. Their answers..."

Ino paused. Team [-]’s teachings made the child even more confused:

"They told me to be careful of other infected people - there is only so much food, and there is so little fire. In order to survive, everyone has become a beast. If we don't enter the village, the villagers will not find trouble to persecute us, but if we encounter other people Infected people, if they are hungry, they will even kill us and cut our flesh and bleed it."

Ino leaned her head back on the chair, and her white hair, which had become shiny due to the recent supplement of adequate nutrition, was lying on the wood on the ground, like little Li Boli.

"I wanted to refute, but I found that the other brothers and sisters were nodding in agreement. There was also one brother who took off his shirt in front of me to reveal scars, disembowelled him, and almost cut him in half - the one who caused this injury But they were not pickets or slave-catching teams, or even villagers, but infected people they met in the snow."

"At that time, he was holding the pine cones that he had finally stored, but he was discovered by other people who were hungry. The infected people who came to snatch them gave the messenger brother this wound."

"So...why do those people need to be rescued?"

Ino lay motionless on the chair, talking like he was dreaming.

Chapter 25 Mephistopheles and Faust

"I am not sure."

Sasha didn't know what to say to comfort her best friend, and in the end she could only reply with a nonchalant answer without any literary rhetoric.

This is a question they have been avoiding talking about. Although Teacher Tata's ideals are great and noble, they are a bit too noble for Ino and Sasha, who have been struggling in the world since childhood.

Help the poor?After experiencing human malice, they understand better how many sad and abominable tragedies are born in the darkness and have countless fans, and how many unbearable human tragedies are born among the people who need to be saved according to the teacher's words.

——Paihuazi, Worry-free Cave, Water Gate, Three Teachings and Nine Streams... The technique of picking and cutting raw materials is not something that can be carried forward in the hands of high-ranking officials.

Do they really need saving?

Ino and Sasha don't understand.

"Sasha, I'm ashamed of myself for thinking that."

Ino murmured what he was thinking, feeling inferior because he could not have the great love in his heart like his teacher. However, the experience of living at the bottom made him unable to ignore this malice, so he couldn't help but talk about it.

As a result, one person's confusion led to two people's incomprehension, which made Sasha start to doubt life.

Silence became the common background for both sides of the crystal for a while. When the embarrassment gradually developed, Ino continued to speak:

"I think I know what my code name is."

Sasha made a confused nasal sound.

"Do you still remember the Terran Opera Awards we checked?" Ino explained: "I still remember the story of "The Ignorant Scholar and the Resentful Soul". I am wild and untamed, and I get into trouble without knowing it, so I plan to use resentment to Mephistopheles’ name is used as a code name to reflect on one’s self from time to time.”

"I think the teacher will definitely have the answer. It was me who got into trouble myself, and my ideas became more and more extreme. Therefore, with a name like this, once someone calls me, I can often reflect on it and understand the truth taught by the teacher."

"Then I will be the scholar's name," the next moment after Ino said the reason for the name, Sasha also confirmed his codename with a smile: "Faust, the ignorant scholar Faust has a good friend, Mephis, the resentful spirit. Special, the teacher once said that such a code name must be very romantic."

"Well...Mr. Faust, see you tomorrow. I'm going to ask the teacher a question."

Mephistopheles smiled sincerely for the first time tonight. He imitated the tundra incision gesture taught by his brothers and sisters and said "goodbye" while Sasha smiled and waved to him.

The connection is divided into two parts.

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Ino walked into the mayor's office cautiously. It was a large, empty room with freshly painted white walls and simple furniture that didn't have any of the elegance of a mayor. Even Ino Sasha in the prison Not even a living room.

But in such a simple bedroom, Qiao Lun was lighting a bonfire and standing at the table, writing and drawing. The bright firelight illuminated his rosy face, giving him a moving brilliance.

"Ino?"

Qiao Lun asked softly.