Thanks for the invitation. I am a parasite in Terra.

"But there's no rush."

He closed his eyes, and his body began to split apart, transforming into three harmless-looking dogs.

After leaving basic orders, let them stand guard around the coastline.

Zuo Jian turned his attention back to Laurentina.

"We'll be there soon. Grandma Petra must have seen the person you're looking for, because she lived a long time!"

Laurentina held Anita's hand, listened to the girl's words and looked into her expectant eyes.

"It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if your Grandma Petra has never seen the person I'm looking for."

"Zuo.....what I promised you will not change."

"Oh, is it that obvious?"

Anita scratched her head a little embarrassedly.

"Hehe, I can tell at a glance."

"Wow, Painter, you are amazing. Are people out there able to tell what others are thinking at a glance like you?"

"Of course not. Only a mature adult can do that."

Laurentina smiled confidently and pinched Anita's little face, which looked like it was almost written with what she was thinking.

[Speaking of which, why do you always emphasize words like "adult"? I don't think I have ever emphasized this kind of status in front of her. I don't think you need to emphasize it so much, right?]

"It's so noisy! What do you care? And where did you go just now? You didn't even respond to me when I called you."

[I went to look at the ocean and found that it produced almost no fish or plants.]

[Except Haisi.]

"...It seems that the impact of His death is more serious than expected."

[Him?]

'I don't know.

That's what Hai Si called him. The captain has all the detailed information. The only mission we received was to clear the way for other teams.'

"We're almost there... Hey, Wall Brick, why are you guys coming out together?"

Anita pulled Laurentina and asked a man holding a jar.

"Ninety-nine... One hundred! One hundred!"

"One hundred... Oh! So this is already the hundredth time today?"

As she spoke of this, her stomach even made a rumbling sound.

"Painter, are you hungry?"

"Why don't we go find something to eat first! Otherwise, if we go too late, we won't get much."

[Looking for something to eat?]

Zuo Jian narrowed his eyes.

"What's wrong?"

[According to my investigation, this place is basically a dead land. The ocean has no output, and as for the land, it is preliminarily estimated that it does not have the nutrients needed for plant growth.]

[Then the question is, how did they survive to this day?]

Laurentina was stunned, and then she found that more and more residents were walking out of their houses and onto the streets holding jars.

'....Maybe everyone agreed to a time to go together to look for food in the garbage dump?'

"What does one hundred mean, little Anita?"

She lowered her head and looked at the latter and asked.

Judging from Anita's appearance, this wasn't the first time this had happened.

"Oh, I forgot that you, Painter, are not from here. The priest told us so."

"If we wait a hundred tides, one of us can go to the sea and live a good life without starving!"

"But after a while, a lot of food will wash up on the coast, and then... everyone..."

"Wait, food? How is it possible that you ate all that stuff that came rushing up?!!"

Laurentina suddenly grabbed Anita's shoulders and shouted.

"Painter, you are so strong. My shoulder hurts."

"Feel sorry...."

"what happened to you?"

"Did I say something wrong...I'm sorry, I shouldn't have..."

"No....Anita, you didn't say anything wrong, I just....feel a little unwell."

"But, painter, why are one of your eyes blue and the other red, and...both are scary..."

...

Zuojian, you just said that there is nothing in the sea, and all living things have disappeared, except - Haisi.

[.....You are angry, Laurentina, calm down.]

Then aren't you angry?

[No, on the contrary, I am furious now.]

Chapter 30, Zuo Jian and the Nun

"Painter, what's wrong with you?"

"....Why are they taking to the streets with cans?"

Laurentina asked, and at the same time, after her left pupil closed, she saw a red figure squatting on the edge of a cliff not far away on the coastline, holding up a head made of flesh and blood indifferently.

If you look closer, you will find that there are two different faces on the head, as if they were forcibly stitched together.

Those were the faces of Quintus and Lyco.

"What the Deep Sea Church has done here, and what they are planning to do soon."

His flesh and blood body underwent a dramatic transformation, eventually regaining the characteristics of a human being.

Hair and skin, as well as the facial features.

He didn't know why, but the face he subconsciously constructed was similar to Laurentina's type, instead of his own.

But it is not important.

The important thing is that no matter which face he used, it could not reflect the tremendous anger he felt in his heart at the moment.

"Say it out loud, say it out loud without missing a word."

He put his head close, and spoke cruel words with cold words on his delicate face.

"Spit it out without missing a word, or else."

"I will make you regret being born into this world."

Pain-sensing nerves are derived from the two-sided head in his hand.

The five fingers of the hand holding it were like sharp claws, piercing into their foreheads.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!!!!!"

.....

...

.

"Painter, you don't know what good people the priests are."

Anita held Laurentina's hand and answered her happily.

"Everyone had a hard time at the beginning. There was nothing to eat in the sea and nothing to grow on the land. Sometimes we even fought over a can of food."

"But no matter whether they win or lose, they can't escape starvation in the end."

"It was the priests who saw the kind of life we ​​were leading and decided to help us."

[The materials from Yanfeng City generally have poor physical constitutions, and as experimental subjects they have congenital defects.]

[The weak body simply cannot withstand several experiments.]

[To do this, in order to obtain better experimental materials and attract more believers.]

"At first, the priest told us that if we waited until a hundred high tides, the shells in someone's jar would turn red."

"The person holding the red shell is the lucky one who has been chosen. He can go to the sea and live a good life."

"And after a while, the shore will be full of food.

This way, no one will die!"

[Every once in a while, He provides nutrients to the large group, and in return, He will provide gifts to His “fellow citizens.”]

"Although each person doesn't get much food, at least everyone can fill their stomachs, so the priests are really good people."

[After devouring a large group of flesh and blood, these materials will also be gradually assimilated.]

[This will greatly increase reusability for future experiments and also help expand church membership.]

"Also, there are very few priests coming out recently. Although there were fewer in the past, there are still people who come out to teach everyone a lot of things."

"I learned to speak from Grandma Petra, but most of the others learned from the priests. They not only taught us to speak, but also taught us to read. They also told us that everyone here is a brother or sister and should not fight."

[Ignorant and hungry residents are often easier to control, and only a few gifts are needed to make them obey your orders.]

[When they completely trust the church, the entire Saltwind City will even become a cradle for providing materials and believers.]

[It can even serve as a shield for the church to resist the Inquisitor, providing enough time for future transfers.]

"So the painter, you see, they are even willing to teach us to read, so...why do you have this expression?"

[The ignorant people will even be willing to rush to give us everything.]

[But for these inferior and lowly lives, this is their...]

[It is an honor. It is an honor.]

"...Yes, he is a really good man."

Laurentina even had to use Zuo Jian's ability to adjust her facial muscles to make her expression normal.

Otherwise, she wouldn't be able to remain like this after hearing all this.

[Laurentina, calm down, don't let your emotions control you.]

'Zajian, why are you so calm? ! '

She didn't understand why Zuo Jian could remain so calm after going through so much.

"You were clearly... before..."

[Laurentina, anger won't solve anything.]

[It is motivation and reason, but not a solution.]

[But anger is not wrong.]

[But one of us has to keep calm.]

"But you also--"

[So when we let Amaya go before, we ignored the loss of some blood.]

[Laurentina, don't let your anger take over, but you don't need to suppress yourself completely.]

"And then let you suppress yourself? Let you bear this feeling silently?"

"painter?"

Laurentina suddenly shouted.

The sudden change even scared Anita who was standing by.