Poseidon in Tomorrow's Ark

He subconsciously called for help, and as soon as he opened his mouth, a large amount of water instantly poured in through the gap.

'It's water!'

The cat-eared robber's body kept spasming. He tried to move his body, but he couldn't break through the water ball no matter what. It was as if the water ball had his consciousness and wanted to drown him in the center.

Then, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a figure slowly walking across the glassy water surface. With the help of the faint firelight from the outside world, he could clearly see the figure outside the water curtain.

"It's you!"

The person who came was Xiyue who was imprisoned deep in the cave by them. However, he was no longer wearing the tattered clothes he had worn in the desert before, but a brand new black windbreaker.

There was still that gentle smile on his face, but considering his current situation, that gentle smile not only failed to warm his heart, but instead a chill arose from his heart.

Xiyue looked at the robber struggling in the water. Tiny bubbles kept pouring out of his mouth and nose as he struggled, but his waving limbs could not get him out of the floating water.

"Drowning is a very beautiful way to die. It also makes people realize the preciousness of life. You can't help but struggle and greedily use every breath of air you have left."

Xiyue looked at a huge ball of air flowing out of his wide-open mouth, and Xiyue knew that was the only air left in his lungs.

"It looks like you're doomed. How pitiful! There's a party going on outside, with the aroma of wine everywhere, but you're trapped in this ball of water."

Xiyue looked at the cat-eared robber who was gradually losing his struggle in the water and said with a little compassion.

"I'm sorry, I can only use this slow and somewhat painful method to send you off. After all, I still can't control the force of the water flow very well, so I can't do the water blades in the fantasy works before."

"I hope you can forgive me, but you have abused me for a month, so this is just a small return of my gratitude. Of course, the others can't escape either."

Xiyue is now like the final villain in various detective works, telling all his crime plans to the captured protagonist.

"Remember this morning you told me you were going to have a party? Even the woodpile was ready, so I was in the woodpile and threw something in when you weren't paying attention."

At this moment, screams suddenly came from outside, and Xiyue looked back with a smile.

At this moment, under the light of the fire, for some reason, one robber took out a weapon and chopped down another robber, and the attention of the other robbers was also attracted.

As they were surrounding the place, something was bound to happen, such as bumping into someone. Normally, the burly robbers wouldn't care at all.

But at this moment, the two men started swearing at each other, and it gradually developed into a physical fight, and the chaos they caused involved more people.

It was like a virus, spreading to more people, causing them to quarrel, fight, and finally chop each other down with weapons. Even the robber leader sitting on the chair did not miss this grand "carnival".

"It really worked immediately. I think I should thank you. If you hadn't kidnapped me, my system would have updated the combat module and there wouldn't be such a useful poison."

Xiyue threw a piece of incense into the pile of matches he was playing with this morning. The incense had the effect of making people irritable and violent, and it spread over such a long period of time.

Coupled with the stimulation of alcohol, all the robbers who participated in the revelry turned into thugs who might hurt people with just a little conflict.

"It's quite useful, but it takes a long time for it to take effect. It took a full four hours for such a large piece of incense to start to have a noticeable effect, and the price is so expensive."

[Item: Raging Incense]

[Quality: White]

[Type: consumables]

[Effect: The fragrance released after lighting, after long-term inhalation, will make people irritable and eventually become irritable until the effect dissipates. The duration of the effect depends on the amount inhaled. ]

[Description: The incense was supposed to calm the mind, but it was mixed with poison that can make people manic and irritable. Inhaling it for a long time will make people irritable and irritable.]

[Price: 1500 medical points]

[D-level medical rating can be unlocked for purchase]

It is worth mentioning that even if combat items or even poisons are unlocked in the mall, the prices of those items are at least three times more expensive than medical items of the same level.

The system's explanation for this is that it is still a doctor system, although the situation is not suitable for simple medical practice because of the world itself.

But the essence of practicing medicine still exists, and practicing medicine to save lives is still the main purpose of this system, so things related to combat are so expensive in the mall.

At the same time, if Xiyue kills people indiscriminately, or in other words, kills people without self-defense, her medical rating and medical points will be deducted.

However, what happened now still conforms to what the system calls self-defense counterattack and killing. If the other party had not searched his backpack first, Xiyue's career as a time traveler might have ended at that time.

After another month of imprisonment and forced medical care, Xiyue has the right to enjoy unlimited self-defense.

Xiyue stretched and dispersed the water ball next to her, and the cat-eared robber who had already suffocated to death fell to the ground.

Only then did Xiyue slowly walk out of the cave. This was the first time she walked out without carrying anything on her.

"The air of freedom, cough! Cough, cough, well, the air in the desert still doesn't smell very good."

After Xiyue walked out of the cave, he wanted to take a deep breath and shout "freedom" to express his excitement of being freed from the trouble. However, he was choked by the dusty air in the desert.

"Now it's time to collect the spoils."

Xiyue walked towards the carriages that they regarded as trophies and were piled up around them, as well as the various boxes that they had moved down from the open space.

Xiyue walked to an open box, took out a bottle, opened the lid, smelled it, and was choked by the strong smell of alcohol.

"Vodka?" Xiyue turned over the bottle and looked for the label and discovered that the wine was from Ursus, and judging from the name, it seemed to be vodka.

"It's quite potent, keep it."

Xiyue threw the opened wine bottles away casually, and stuffed the few remaining bottles of wine in the box into the inside of her black windbreaker.

The strange thing was that even though five bottles of wine had been stuffed into the windbreaker, there was no bulge at all, as if the wine had been swallowed up and disappeared without a trace.

This black windbreaker is certainly not an ordinary item, but a specially prepared space storage prop.

[Item: Lankai Windbreaker]

[Type: Long leather coat, windbreaker, black (cyan stripes)]

Durability: 97/97

[Effect 1: Storage. There is a 1×1× space inside the clothing that can store any item. Please note that this space does not have the conditions for most organisms to survive.]

[Effect 2: Lan Kai, after activation, the cyan stripes will emit a slight fluorescence. At the same time, airflow will slowly appear on the surface of the windbreaker, which can be used for defense.]

[Description: Don't count too much on the main defensive ability of this piece of clothing. The airflow defense ability can be used to cool down most of the time.]

[Price: 8000 medical points]

[D-level medical rating available for purchase]

Xiyue also tried the second effect of Lankai. It was really just wind, but it was quite cool. However, it should be good for smoke exhaust or something.

After stuffing a few bottles of wine, Xiyue went to look at the other boxes, but found that most of the boxes outside were filled with wine and food.

After collecting a large box of dry food, Xiyue ignored the boxes placed nearby.

"Don't you have anything valuable?"

In Xiyue, he also checked the boxes in several surrounding carriages and found that the boxes outside were not valuable, but contained food or alcohol and beverages.

Of course, it’s not that these foods and drinks are worthless, but it takes Xiyue a long time to sell them, and the quantity she carries is not that large. So, they are not that useful to Xiyue, and they are not that valuable.

"I don't believe it. Since it's not outside, it must be in..." Xiyue was a little angry after opening several boxes but got nothing.

Then Xiyue turned his attention to another cave entrance, which was the warehouse of the robbers. Since there were food, wine, water, and drinks displayed there, there should be some valuable things inside.

Xiyue walked into the cave. There were only two boxes left. One of them was relatively small, about the size of two and a half palms.

It seems that most of the caravans robbed by this group of robbers were not caravans transporting valuables, but rather caravans of food or something like that.

But it's also true that if it was really a caravan transporting valuables, its defense level would not be something that this group of rabble-rousers could rob.

Xiyue walked forward, picked up the small box on the shelf, looked at the lock hanging on the box, smiled slightly, raised her hand and began to pour water into the lock, controlling the water to prevent it from flowing out.

The water inside the narrow lock continued to increase, and finally broke the lock directly.

"This lock-picking skill is unmatched by even the best thieves~"

Xiyue opened the box, and inside was azure blue paper. These were Longmen coins issued by Longmen, which were used in most cities. It seemed that they were accumulated by this group of robbers.

"Wow, Longmen coins, let me see how many there are?"

Xiyue squatted on the ground and decisively began to count the money. After a while, she nodded with satisfaction.

"It's more than 80,000 in total. They definitely robbed more than that. I guess they spent it somewhere."

Xiyue stuffed all the more than 80,000 Longmen coins in the box into the space for her clothes.

"Finally I have something valuable. Oh, no, this is money. It's in this box."

After breaking the padlock in the same way, Xiyue opened the box, but what was inside disappointed her.

Because the box contains a low-purity Originium solution, similar to the gasoline before the time travel, which is used to supply the Originium engine in the Ark world view, and this purity is generally used for cars and the like.

Well, this thing is quite valuable, but it is of no use to Xiyue.

"Wait, the keys are here too?"

Xiyue reached out and took out a few bunches of keys from the box, which looked like they were the keys to the vehicle.

I said before that these things were of no use to Xiyue, only because Xiyue tried to find the key when she got into the car and rummaged through the cargo, but didn't find it.

And he didn't even touch the bodies of the robbers lying on the ground.

Xiyue felt that these things were useless. After all, these raw stone solutions were large, took up space, were heavy, and had nowhere to use them.

But now that the key has been found, the Originium solution in this box is an important material.

Xiyue closed the box, wrapped the box with a ball of water and lifted it up in the air. This was a little trick she discovered. Compared to her own physical strength, if she could create a ball of water, wrap an object, and then make it float in the air, she would be able to lift extremely heavy objects.

Xiyue walked out of the cave and came to the open space, where she picked out a van that she liked.

The main thing is that there are no signs of any force on the car, so the trouble it causes seems to be less.

After putting the boxes on the car, Xiyue used water to help put some wood up. As for whether the wood would get wet, Xiyue said there was no need to worry.

As long as Xiyue maintains control over the water and drains all the water after moving the wood up, only the surface of the wood will feel a little moist.

After moving a few more boxes of food and water and getting in the car, Xiyue breathed a sigh of relief.

The anxiety of the past few days, coupled with the long-term water control, still made Xiyue feel a little sleepy.

But fortunately, everything was worth it and Xiyue regained her freedom.

Xiyue adjusted the driving position. The driving position was a little to the back, and it seemed that a fat man was originally driving the car.

Xiyue searched for the key in her hand and tried to find the key of the car one by one.

In the end, he didn't care about the fatigue in his mind. He wouldn't run into anyone in the wilderness anyway, and Xiyue wanted to leave here so much that he started the car and stepped on the accelerator and rushed out.

Chapter 4: Columbia Pioneers

"Paulie, what's going on?"

In a cave, three people blocked the entrance with a steel plate. There were constant banging sounds coming from the steel plate, and it looked like something was hitting the steel plate.

"Chris, this is bad, didn't you hear it?"

"If this damn storm doesn't stop, John's going to die."

A big man wrapped in a cloak was sitting next to the steel plate, holding it tightly against the entrance of the hole with his body, looking at another person lying on the ground.

The man still lying on the ground had blood gushing out of his head. Even though they had bandaged it, the white bandage was covered in large blood stains.

The three of them are Colombia's pioneer team, a small team that is expanding outward for the great Colombia.

They are also the so-called infected. Because of accidents, frame-ups or just bad luck, in short, no matter what the reason, they are infected with mineral disease.

In other countries, they would most likely be driven out of the city, and if they were lucky, they might end up in an unregulated slum.

But in Colombia, infected people also enjoy "human rights" and only need to purchase medical insurance to ensure that you are "harmless."

When this medical insurance takes effect, infected people will not be deported and they still have the right to live a normal life in Colombia.

But this medical insurance will only become more and more expensive, and almost no company or job is willing to pay such high medical insurance for an infected person.

Unless the infected person makes the company feel that he is qualified, but unfortunately, how many such people are there?

But living in the city, they need money, they need to maintain this medical insurance.

Unless they want to be driven out and become another wanderer who will die in the wilderness.

How can those who have lost their jobs pay for the high insurance premiums? The answer is that all banks in Colombia are willing to lend money to infected people, a very "conscientious" loan.

Colombia does not exclude infected people. Oh no, to be more precise, they do not exclude the infected people's money. They will squeeze everything out of the infected people.

However, with high medical insurance costs, few people can survive more than two months. So will the infected people who have been exploited and have nothing be abandoned?

No, the "kind" Colombia will provide them with a job opportunity, become a pioneer team, and help Colombia open up the wilderness.

To be honest, it sounds like this is no different from being a wanderer, surviving in a dangerous wilderness.

But compared to wanderers in the wilderness, pioneers can enjoy a certain degree of free medical care and safe resting places in various outposts.