889 Quiet 1 (1/2)

”We... in danger... deal... second half of training method... come quick....” Red Moon's message was not very long, but its meaning was very simple and precise.

”They” evidently meant Clint, and his younger brother Lon. The three of them were in danger, which clearly meant that they had come across some trouble in the radiation belt.

Garen rubbed his chin as he thought about it. He allowed the Mech's quantum computer to calculate the distance that the signal was coming from.

”If he came to the radiation belt without a hazmat suit, then he'd really be in trouble. Baylon, that kid...” He was worried that if Baylon really was infected by the radiation, and became a radiation person, no matter how small a radiation mark he had, he would still be forever ostracized from all the Regions.

Radiation disease was incurable, that was a fact acknowledged by all the regions, without exception.

Soon, the computer had calculated the distance.

'The signal came from a distance of: 235 kilometers, 23 degrees to the North-West.'

'Warning, warning, insufficient reserves in energy furnace, the battery must be changed now. Power remaining 4%.'

”I'll go charge my battery first, otherwise I won't be able to move after several kilometers.”

Garen heaved a long breath, and quickly put on a sealed hazmat suit. Actually, even if he did not suit up, no radiation would be able to infect him, because as a Peacock larva, he was already the largest source of radiation. Nobody could block the cold radiation he emitted, it could even affect their hearts. But he still had to be aware of his identity on the surface.

Inside the Mech, he held a short staff in his hand. It was the Staff of Ultimate Yin. Taking it with him, Garen was slowly sent out of the cockpit, forming a separate cabin on his own. And then the outer door to the Mech opened slowly.

Pfft!

There was a spray of white gas that emanated everywhere.

Wearing a hazmat suit, Garen slowly jumped forward, and landed lightly on the soil beside the cliff.

The other three people also walked out of their respective Mechs in their suits. They were all wrapped up in thick black clothes as though it was winter, but unlike winter clothing, they also had to wear a transparent glass helmet over their heads. The helmet was completely transparent, so unless they looked at it closely, no one would notice that they were wearing something like that. It was extremely well-hidden.

Other than that, not a single patch of their skin was exposed. It was all covered tightly, with black gloves on their hands. They even had a Blackboard pattern on the back of the hands, it looked like an eye.

Anda walked at the very front, looking at the Flying Batoid City beneath them.

”I've contacted the City Master already, someone needs to stand watch over the base when we're charging batteries. The radiation people will send someone here specifically for this, we just need to pay with two bottles of Level One water. Everyone else can go explore and play around. Who's willing to stay behind?”

”I'll do it.” Aves raised his hand. ”I can only look and not play anyway, if I get all riled up, I'll still have to finish it off myself. What a pain. I'm not going.”

”Fine.”

The other three, Anda, Linda, and Garen, all climbed down the right side of the cliff. There was a flight of ninety-degree stairs there, covered with moss. Evidently, they were used often.

The three of them walked down the stairs for several minutes, and soon enough they came across a stone door to a guard station. There was a black person carrying a gun on his back, standing guard there.

”It's the three sires!” The black man snapped a salute at the three of them. Their salute was really strange their right hand pressed against their forehead at a ninety-degree angle. Their accent was just a little flatter than the people inside the regions, their tongue did not curl at all.

Anda nodded, leading Linda and Garen inside.

As they continued down the mountain path, they saw more and more man-made buildings, with railing that was painted blue. Occasionally they would come across radiation people, all of them carrying large baskets on their backs, but who knew what they had come out here to pick.

Garen peeked into one of their baskets, and found that it was full of plant roots and green grass, and there was the occasionally useful herb as well.

All the radioactive people who saw them along the way, whether they were dressed simply or luxuriously, all scattered to the sides in fearful respect, allowing the three of them to pass.

A woman carrying a child even clapped her hand to her child's mouth tightly. No matter how hard the one-year-old child cried, she refused to let go, but some sound still escaped. Anda heard it, and glanced over with a frown.

With a bang, the woman actually knocked out her own child mercilessly, and fell to her knees, dragging the child with her, her head lowered. She dared not say a single thing, and just kept kowtowing on the ground.

”These are radiation people.” Anda's tone was mild, but it had a hint of contempt. ”Forget Inner Courtyard elites like us, they can't even provoke the regular Outer Courtyard students.”

”Over here, our position is even scarier than the emperor,” Linda said with a sigh. It clearly was not her first time here either.

”What about the ruler here?” Garen asked.

”Just a fatty who sits around waiting to die, he can't even get up, he's over four hundred pounds in weight,” Anda said contemptuously. ”According to the rules, the rulers here must also bow and show their respect to us when they meet us, but these parasites are at the top, so of course they don't want to do that in front of so many people. That's why they find reasons to avoid meeting us, and get their subordinates to greet us instead. It's a very common thing here, as long as they treat people like us well, they don't have anything to worry about. Over here, people are worth the least, the most valuable things here are clean food and water, nothing else can match up to these two.”

The three of them walked into the farmlands of the Flying Batoid City beneath them. The green farms surrounded the whole city, but rather than the regular paddy or wheat, they were filled with a strange plant. It had a green stem like paddy, but on top it was a fat, squirming green maggot. The maggot was curled up, tightly hugging the tip of the plant, swaying and swinging in the breeze.

Soon enough, a radiation man with a strong body greeted them up front, getting on his knees and bowing in front of them in the middle of the path between the crops.

”Representing the City Master, Vendant is here to greet the arrival of my three lords.” There were four people behind him, all of them seemed to be teenagers. The two men were handsome and strong, the two women beautiful and pure. They were all subtly dressed to look pretty and sexy.