Chapter 1042! White-haired woman
Chapter 1042! White-haired woman
(The two chapters I owed yesterday have been supplemented and revised in the previous chapter. Sorry, I have been drinking too much these days)
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While Charles and Jingnan were whispering, City Lord Morgan had already finished his passionate speech. At the moment he finished speaking, the fire children who were performing a strange dance shouted at the same time: "Warriors... set off."
At the same time, the priests and believers of the Light and Shadow Church who were wearing red robes around them began to knock on the ground with the scepters in their hands. The orderly knocking sounds made many unsuspecting believers, the upper class people, and the common people excited.
Watching the five travelers slowly approaching the elevator platform, Hong Kou gritted his teeth and said, "Yesterday, I almost persuaded the teacher to let Instructor Elon come down, but that bastard Charles intervened and made the teacher hold on for a while..."
"Instructor Hong Kou, how far do you think Instructor Elon and the others can go?"
"How far? The ground is full of Extreme Devourers. They are lucky to have made it even a kilometer." Hong Kou looked at Penny who asked her the question and said in an extremely cold voice: "Without weapons and heavy three-dimensional mechas, Instructor Elon and his men can't get very far."
"The so-called long journey is to exile these old men who have made great contributions."
"I really want to know whether they will be willing to travel far away when they are old."
"Sister Hong Kou, stop talking. Be careful not to let those believers hear you."
"I heard it, so what? At worst, I'll go on a long journey..."
"Shh..."
Listening to Hong Kou and the others' conversation, Shen Ye remained silent. He simply watched the five travelers standing on the elevator, then watched them gradually disappear from his sight...
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When the elevator landed on the ground, five travelers led by Instructor Elon walked down from the elevator.
At this moment, the originally most excited Dustman 0591 looked back at the slowly rising elevator, and a look of horror suddenly appeared in his eyes.
No matter how much she wanted to be a hero, due to the Lighthouse's relentless propaganda, her impression of the ground was only fear and terror.
"Elon, where are we going next?" asked Morin, the engineer who made great contributions to the lighthouse. He was much calmer than others and he was even considering finding a safe place to live.
"Where else do you think we can go? Maureen, there's nothing we can do except wait to die." The old woman named Tara shook her head and said, "For us, starving to death somewhere is the best outcome."
"I don't think so." Elon glanced at them, then reached into his clothes and took out a bottle of wine and a pack of cigarettes in the surprised eyes of engineer Maureen and document clerk Gordon.
"Elon... where did you get these things?" Engineer Morin looked at him in shock. As a fellow survivor of the old world, he could of course see that the things in Elon's hands were not second-hand goods that had been passed around several times, but brand new gadgets, treasures that even Lord Morgan would hardly enjoy.
"Of course it was given to me by someone else. I haven't been to the ground for a long time." Elon opened the bottle and took a sip, then handed the bottle to Maureen, and then opened the cigarettes and distributed them to the other people.
"Who is so generous? These things can be exchanged for a lot of contribution points, right?" Although Tara was a woman, she still took a cigarette from Elon's hand. She was very pessimistic about her future, so even if she didn't smoke, she was ready to try what was so good about this thing.
Elon lit up the cigarette and took a drag, then said, "Remember the survivor who climbed onto the lighthouse from the ground?"
"Shen Ye? Of course I remember. Did he give it to me?"
"What else can we do? The scavengers can't keep these goodies." Elon glanced at the lighthouse that was slowly rising after the elevator was retracted and said, "He gave it to me last night, saying that I could use these things on the ground."
"Elon, what you mean is..." Maureen's eyes lit up.
"Yes, just as you thought, there are other survivors on the ground, or rather, settlements of survivors." Elon began to recall what Shen Ye had said to him yesterday: "Although I'm not sure whether it's true or not, I don't think he would lie to me..."
"That's hard to say. Maybe he thinks you're old and feels sorry for you." Mo Lin said after taking a big sip of wine. The taste that he hadn't tasted for a long time made him frown slightly, but there was a smile in the corners of his eyes.
Obviously, although alcohol is not a good thing, it can sometimes soothe the heart of a pessimistic person.
Then Morin handed the bottle to the only Dustman among the five of them: "Come on, 0591, have a sip too."
"No... no thanks." 0591 quickly waved her hand to refuse. Even though she was also a survivor of the old world, she had long accepted her identity under the oppression and domestication of the Lighthouse Law.
"Don't be so reserved, 0591. Come on, give it a try." Elon grabbed the bottle from Morin's hand and handed it to 0591. He then asked, "We are the same age. You must be from the Old World. Now that things have come to this, I'm too lazy to call you by your number, so can you tell us what your name was before?"
Upon hearing this, 0591 was stunned for a moment, and then a hint of nostalgia flashed in her eyes. But after a while, she said helplessly: "I... I have long forgotten what my name was before."
"Then give yourself another name." Elon forced the bottle into 0591's hand. "You can't let us still call you by your number after we leave the lighthouse, right?"
"It's just a number, I'm used to it." 0591 said with a wry smile: "Besides, how long can we live?"
After saying this, she tilted her head back and took a big sip of wine, but perhaps because she had never drunk alcohol in the old world, she immediately started coughing after finishing the sip.
"You guys are such a fool! Don't force her to drink if she doesn't know how to drink." Tara, the only female among the five travelers, snatched the bottle from 0591. Just as she was dissatisfiedly blaming Elon and the other two, Elon suddenly said, "Quiet, don't make a sound. I think I hear the sound of an engine."
"You must be kidding. The lighthouse has flown far away. Where did you hear the engine sound? Are you drunk?" Morin laughed.
"I drank a whole bottle by myself last night. After so many years, my alcohol tolerance has not decreased but increased. How could I drink too much?" Elon glanced at Maureen and made a gesture to silence him again.
Looking at his actions, the other four hesitated for a moment and then shut their mouths.
Then they heard the sound of engines, too, and it was getting closer.
Mo Lin's face suddenly showed a surprised expression: "It really exists... How is this possible?"
"I told you that guy wouldn't lie to me." Elon laughed and then looked in the direction where the engine sound came from.
Then he saw an off-road vehicle full of people leaping over a distant dirt slope and landing heavily in front of the five of them.
"Have you... seen this person?"
Under the surprised gaze of the five people, a young woman with white hair jumped out of the car, holding up a hand-drawn picture and asked them.
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HCB