Chapter 703 Return to reality
The traveling team had a deep sleep in the sea of nectar flowers, and then woke up contentedly to the fragrance of the plants.
Su stretched out his body and stood up to do some calisthenics. "It's so healthy here. I don't feel irritable when I get up."
Sulusa, who was lying on the side reading a picture book with Paimon, raised her head and asked, "What kind of dance without aesthetic sense is this?"
Paimon explained: "This is not a dance, it's a soft gymnastics taught by a kid named Qiqi."
Qiqi has a bad memory, and the stretching exercises she does are different every time. Actually, it doesn't matter, just move your body around.
Su did a few cartwheels easily, clapped his hands and stood up, "Kong hasn't woken up yet? I'll go call him!"
"You're going to bother him, right?" Paimon exposed the girl and pointed the way directly. "Look, deep in the flowers over there."
The blond boy lay among the flowers, the sunlight shining through the gaps between the petals and blades onto his soft hair.
His breathing was steady and long, and his sleeping face looked peaceful and comfortable.
Su pulled the thin blanket that had slid to the side to cover Kong's exposed waist. After covering her, she realized that this was contrary to her goal, and reached out to pull a piece of furry grass.
Before Maomao Cao could reach out, Su's hand was grabbed.
Sora opened his eyes, "I woke up when you were rolling around in the grass."
"It's not rolling around!" Su muttered, retracting a prank, "Sora, why don't you cover yourself with a blanket when you sleep?"
Sora: "It's too hot." The rainforest is hot enough, but the desert is even hotter than the rainforest.
Sue: "At least cover your belly button if it's hot."
Sora updated the record of "Su's little quirk" in his mind, "Okay, got it, I'll definitely do it next time."
The group of travelers who had slept well were discussing with Sulusa about getting something delicious to try together, when Lashalu flew over with a sleepy face.
Lasharu: "Silusha... change shifts, I want to sleep... huh——"
"A useless fool." Slusha cursed Lashalu, and went outside the sea of nectar flowers for Ben, and the traveler team followed to watch the fun.
Just as Zulwan said, the strange phenomenon of the sea of nectar flowers attracted many people to "investigate", the largest number of whom were the Fatui.
Michell created thick thorns to wrap up the crying fools, ready to throw them away as before.
"stop!"
Su stopped Michelle, and when the Fatui soldiers showed expressions of "We're saved!", he rushed forward and looted these guys' weapons and belongings.
"Well, they are useless now, so let's do what we have to do."
The thorns "whoosh" and threw the Fatui into meteors in the sky.
Su taught Hua Ling, "Even a little bit of money can make a lot. If you save up like this, you will have rewards to pay to adventurers who complete quests in the future."
Su sat down and divided the spoils. "This time, Michelle completed the hunt, so Michelle takes half. But I was the one who proposed this great idea, so I'll take half too."
The flower spirits had no objections and began to learn how to distribute the spoils.
Sue: "You can't use the weapons, and there's no place to sell them here, so just give them to me. The Fatui badge can be exchanged for Mora at the Adventurer's Guild, but there's no guild nearby, so just give them to me."
"There are a few gold pocket watches as well. We can each have half. I'll sell them for the money and you can use them to tell time. Mora is convenient and has many practical uses. Let's give all the ones we got this time to Michelle."
Paimon also flew over, "Mora has different denominations, I'll teach you how to recognize them."
The happy activity of dividing the spoils ended when Sora, who came over with a serious face, clutching several secret letters.
"Jade is very likely in danger."
The papers in his hand were also obtained from the Fatui just now. One part was the secret letter of collusion between the Fatui and Babel, and the other part was the mission action instructions.
The Fatui reached a deal with Babel, the matriarch of the Tanit tribe. Tanit, who attached great importance to the members of the tribe, voluntarily handed over a girl for the experiment...
Kong guessed that the betrayed girl was most likely Jade who had not yet fully integrated into the Tanit tribe.
"How could this happen..." Paimon was dumbfounded, "We have to rescue Jade quickly!"
After hastily bidding farewell to the sea of nectar flowers and the flower spirits, the travel team set off immediately.
The team of travelers rushed to the location marked in the intelligence, and there was indeed a heavily guarded Fatui camp there.
The traveler team immediately overturned everyone in the camp, but did not find Jade at all.
Sora checked the nearby sand for traces, "There are wheel tracks here. It looks like they've moved on with the people they captured."
So the group continued to chase along the traces of the wheel tracks, and encountered a collapsed Rock Envoy guerrilla soldier halfway.
Su grabbed his collar and lifted him up, "Tell me! Where are Jade and the Doctor?"
The bandages wrapped around the Yanshi guerrilla's face seemed to be soaked with dirty liquid, and Su threw him to the ground in disgust.
The pain pulled the Rock Envoy Guerrilla back to the human world from his fear and collapse. He gasped and took deep breaths, "No, no, Doctor... that girl named Jade, she... she is a monster!"
"Professor Froedlock had wanted to carry her back in a cage... but she woke up and tore the cage apart! And then! The brother closest to her...! Ugh... poor Joffrey..."
Paimon was stunned. "Tear the cage apart...? Is Jade crazy?"
Jade was indeed mad, tearing not only the cage but her enemies as well.
"She just tore a living person into festive paper pieces like that!" The Rock Envoy guerrilla soldier couldn't stop retching. "The blood and flesh flew everywhere and even splashed into my mouth...!"
Paimon felt like vomiting after hearing this and his face turned pale.
Su also looked disgusted. She suspected that the bandage on this guy's face was full of vomit!
Orest Shenetsevich is a Solstice man who chose to join the army in order to raise his sister. He has some talent and became a long-range sorcerer after some transformation and training.
He used to be thankful that although this job was hard, it was not only tax-free but also allowed him to earn a lot of Mora every day. Now he finally understood why wages were calculated on a daily basis!
People are dying in this business every day! Death goes hand in hand with them!
Orests vented his fears and only now realized that he had given away information that he shouldn't have.
He looked at the group of travelers in front of him, remembered the few words he had learned from his senior commander, and finally chose to kneel down and pray.
“Please, please let me go! I have a younger sister to raise. She’s an orphan like me. I can get a lot of Mora by joining the army, so that she won’t have to be sent to the Hearth House like me... Uh... I’m not saying that the Hearth House is bad or anything, but I hope she has a better future... Do you understand...? Sorry, sorry! I said too much, didn’t I... Ahem... I said all this not to win your sympathy, but, but... What I wanted to say is..."
"I'm paid by the Faints, not to suffer this!" Orestes burst into tears.
Sue: "Shut up, tell me where Jade is, and then you can get out."
Orest pointed to the distance in surprise, "The ruins over there! The ruins over there!"
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Orests stumbled a long way and fell on the sand again. It took him a long time to dare look back in the direction the traveler group left.
He didn't expect that the terrorist team in the rumors was really the same as what his superior said. As long as they didn't take the initiative to kill, and as long as they spoke sweetly and begged for mercy in time, there was a great chance that he could save his life.
He has saved two lives today! It must be that his sister's daily prayers for him worked.
younger sister……
Orests looked around at the vast sea of sand, and the idea of becoming a deserter that had arisen in his mind under the great fear of life and death disappeared.
He stood up and walked towards the nearest station, rejoining the group of Fatui soldiers.