938 Plight 2 (1/2)
With enough Nutritional Liquid, this was the basis of everything.
”I remember them,” outside of the door, East Perrin repeated what Garen had asked for. Her memory was not bad and she could remember everything just by hearing once. Soon, she left and seemed to be going somewhere to find the materials.
However, as noises arose from the outside, Garen knew that he was wrong. Voices of exclamations were faintly heard.
”Chief has gone out!!”
”Why is she when it's so dangerous!?”
”Get back! Big sister!”
People shouted again and again but no response was heard from East Perrin.
Within ten minutes, she had returned.
”Thank God!”
”Chief, you can never run a risk again! You are our only hope!”
”Chief...!””Chief...”
Flustered voices followed, with the voice of East Perrin constantly apologizing.
Garen looked up, and suddenly, all the pain in his body disappeared without a trace as if it had never emerged before.
Time, 7:22.
”Finally it has ended...” Garen let out a sigh of relief and wiped his sweat with both hands. He felt that there was a difference in the two imprints behind him.
He found a mirror and looked at himself. Under the control of his Willpower, a greatly altered Willpower imprint gradually appeared.
The original two imprints had now become a larger single unit. The original diamond shape had also turned into the form of a tiny wild wolf with a black body and green eyes. It didn't look too bad, even a bit ferocious.
”This is Energy Machine Imprint?” Garen tried again to calculate the stereoscopic computational model for the advancing of Level Three Energy Machinist. Sure enough, it was no ordinary task. It was almost incomparable to the previous straining effort.
”If there was enough time, I need five days to break through to Energy Machinist Level Three!” He made a simple calculation of the progress in his mind.
”Sure enough, having three times more the computing power is different.”
”The materials have been found!” The voice of East Perrin came from outside of the door, calm and exhausted.
Garen stood up and walked over to open the door. He looked at East Perrin, her hair scattered over her forehead. This agile and brave woman still had a straight face on. There was a thin trace of blood on her cheek. Clearly, the trip was not entirely smooth.
The tight gray dress she wore was snagged and had several holes. Blood marks were vaguely visible on the skin.
”Take me there,” Garen exclaimed.
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On the edge of the processing workshop at the rear of Leo City, a square pit was dug out in an open space. It was piled with a variety of messy materials, including roots, flowers, bloody flesh and bones.
Garen and East Perrin stood alone in front of the pit.
”What do you want to do?” East Perrin asked Garen. ”Everything has been found for you.”
”There is still a lacking of one last thing,” Garen said plainly.
”Still lacking!?” East Perrin's eyes widened. ”Few of my brothers are dead because of these things, I myself almost died outside. Now you tell me that there is still something lacking?!”
”What's lacking cannot be found by you,” Garen said plainly. ”We're all in the same boat together now. If you die and I'll also die. What's there to be desperate about?”
East Perrin wiped her face.
”Alright, I'll calm down. Now there are a few waves of small-scale attacks out there. The number is about a dozen. But when I went out and looked through the telescope, Vulture City has basically been digested. The Predators inside seems to have begun to shift out and head over here. We don't have much time.”
”How much longer? An estimation?” Garen asked.
”No more than three days. Although the number of Predators has increased, their speed has also reduced. It takes five days to walk over here from Vulture City. Since the speed of the Predators are fast, it should take them about three days to journey here. The discrepancy would not be huge,” East Perrin answered in a low voice.
”Just wait for it. There will be hope,” Garen jumped down and began to pick up a piece of material by hand. Traces of Cold Radiation flashed in his hand from time to time, freezing the better part of the material to prevent it from deteriorating.
East Perrin did not know what to do and could only watch from the edge.
”Prepare a room for me, a bigger one,” Garen ordered.
”Alright.”
Minutes and seconds ticked by and it was time for breakfast. Radiation people were accustomed to eating two meals a day, one about nine in the morning and another at six in the evening. However now, when the few women who were in-charged of meals served some food to eat, not many people had the appetite. There were children silently helping to refill the food and water.
Garen directly consumed the highly irradiated Nutritional Liquid. With a grab, blue threads emerged from his palm and directly absorbed the Nutritional Liquid, leaving only useless impurities behind.
Time passed quickly and noon soon arrived. Garen looked up to the sky from time to time as he was waiting for the drone sent out by Celine. If his luck was alright, perhaps with the distance from Polar Region to here, it would reach today.
East Perrin had already gone to defense. Now the atmosphere in the town was somewhat in despair. Without her taking command in the city, it was very likely that something catastrophic would happen.
Garen stayed here alone and quietly worked on the material in his hands.
Two large basins were placed beside each other and the parts he had dealt with were placed in them.
The Predators were gradually approaching. There were definitely Level Two Predators in the vast army. When Garen saw the end of Caster who had tried to escape, he knew that he had hit jackpot. A one in a million Level Two Predator was actually present here.