"Yes, this is the fragment of the Broken Blade, but I don't know which timeline this fragment belongs to."
659 replied softly, stretched his fingers forward, held down the metal fragment that was constantly moving towards the blade, and dragged it back to the little girl.
When the little girl saw that 659 returned the fragments as promised, she immediately reached out to cover the broken blade fragments on the table, carefully put them away and put them close to her body.
"You said before that this little girl's mother is dead?"
Watching the little girl put away the fragments, 659 turned his attention to the face of Bai Donggu next to him and asked.
"Yes, I don't know whether this child is lucky or unlucky. After Xiaoyi's mother died of illness, the child was supposed to become an orphan without anyone to take care of her. But not long after, a man adopted her. .”
"adoption?"
There was obviously something strange in 659's eyes.
"That's right, adoption, don't you think it's weird?"
Bai Donggu smiled, but this smile was very forced in 659's eyes.
"In today's apocalyptic environment, everyone is living a life of today and no tomorrow. For ordinary people, in addition to worrying about attacks by zombies and alien beasts, they also need to consider daily food consumption."
"Because food cannot fall from the sky by itself. If you want to get it, you have to risk your life to search in the city. However, as time goes by, the food stored in the city gradually deteriorates, and only a few shelters rely on it. With the granary in hand, we can still make a living."
"With the shortage of food and the threat of the end of the world, most people have given up on the standards of life before the disaster. Some shelters established spontaneously by civilians even have the phenomenon of exchanging children for food."
"Logically speaking, in such an environment, the noble behavior of 'adoption', which is to take care of the cubs of the same kind, should not occur."
Having said this, Bai Donggu gave 659 a look, as if asking him whether he agreed with his statement.
"Yes, the darkest moment in human history."
Without showing too many expressions on his face, Zhang Heng-659 remained calm and affirmed softly.
But it seemed that he only spoke half of his words.
"But despite this, there are still many examples of 'adoption'. Some scumbags with special quirks will adopt the name of 'adoption' to adopt fair-looking little boys or girls."
"What seems like a noble act out of good intentions is actually just to satisfy one's own dirty desires."
At this point, the complexity in 659's eyes became more intense, and the veins on his neck faintly appeared, as if he had already imagined the fate of the little girl in front of him after being 'adopted' by the scum.
Naturally, the subtle expression on 659's face could not escape the eyes of Bai Donggu, a user with brain-enhancing abilities. The man in a sergeant's uniform spoke with a smile on his face.
"Indeed, under the weight of the disaster, many people abandoned their humanity and re-embraced their bestiality in order to survive. For them, living is more important than anything else."
"But Xiaoyi's father is an alien, an alien who insists on humanity."
Speaking of this, a warm smile appeared on Bai Donggu's face. As a general of the underground city, he had seen too many nasty things. If it had been in the past, he would have raised the knife without hesitation. , execute these scum one by one on the spot.
But now is the end of the world, and the number of surviving humans has dropped sharply. They have been reduced from the masters of the past to cockroaches surviving in the cracks. Who will care about those 'minutiae'.
Being able to survive is already the greatest luxury.
"Aliens who insist on human nature...this statement is really a bit sad..."
Hearing the words from Bai Donggu's mouth, 659 also showed a hint of relief on his face.
People who can stick to their true intentions in such a bad environment deserve his sincere admiration.
"Hey, by the way..."
The smiling Bai Donggu seemed to have remembered something, and the smile on his face suddenly faded, and he turned to ask the little girl.
"Xiaoyi, I didn't see your father in the trading floor earlier. He went out hunting?"
Hearing Bai Donggu ask this, the little girl's reserved face suddenly froze, and the remaining blood on her face disappeared almost instantly.
His face became extremely pale.
"Dad, dad, he..."
Nervousness and panic filled the little girl's heart, like a big invisible hand slowly strangling her throat.
"Don't be nervous, speak slowly, there is no one else here."
General Bai very considerately pushed the water glass forward on the table, indicating to the little girl to take a drink of water to calm down and organize her words before speaking.
659, who was closest to the girl, pulled the chair sideways, took half a step back and sat down.
There is a safe distance between people. If strangers who are not close to each other get too close, it will easily cause a lot of oppression.
I don't know whether she was thirsty or had really listened to Bai Donggu's words. The little girl was anxious for a long time. Finally, she picked up the tin cup on the table and drank half of the slightly turbid water in one gulp.
After a few turbulent breaths, the little girl finally seemed to clear her mind and spoke.
"Dad, he was injured last time he was hunting, so he has been resting in the dungeon to recuperate. He plans to continue hunting after his injury is healed."
"But dad seems to be seriously injured this time. Even though he stays at home and rests every day, the wound still has no scab, and it heals very slowly."
"I can't go out hunting, and the business in the trading market is not good. My family's savings will soon be exhausted."
"In order to prevent me from going hungry, my father insisted on going hunting regardless of the fact that the wound had not yet healed. As a result, he still hasn't come back today..."
At this point, the little girl burst into tears.
In fact, she had always been anxious, but just now General Bai seemed to be talking about something very important with the big brother with the metal left arm in front of her, which made her temporarily forget the purpose of coming here.
She was already a burden to her father and only consumed the family's meager food rations. Now that she didn't know whether her father was alive or dead, she had almost forgotten this important matter.
Anxiety mixed with guilt made the girl Xiaoyi's heart feel like it was cut to pieces by a thousand cuts. She wanted to fly out of the base in the next second and go to the wilderness outside to look for traces of her father.
"Your father went hunting with an injury? How long have you been there?"
After hearing what the little girl said, Bai Donggu understood most of it instantly, and asked directly without thinking.
"Sixty-eight hours ago... including the current time, about seventy hours have passed..."
"Seventy hours, almost three days and three nights... By the way, General Bai, I heard before that the day and night rotation of the earth in this timeline is one thousand two hundred hours, so it has already passed since dark. how long?"
659 asked. If you want to understand how the world works, you must start with the most basic things.
You must know that within the timeline of No. 659,
"Well... it's probably been nearly eighteen hours... I haven't come back yet, so I might be in danger..."
Stretching out his hand, Bai Donggu glanced at the electronic watch on his wrist and gave a precise answer.
In this dark underground city, since there is no day and night changes such as sunrise and sunset, in order to measure the passage of time, ordinary people wear watches.
Although most watches need to be driven by electricity, the batteries produced before the disaster are enough to support the use of these timepieces for a long time. After the disaster, all luxury goods have become garbage and the value has been redefined, so things like watches are also It has become a very common thing.
For example, the little girl in front of me is wearing a dark green watch on her wrist. The style should be the Rolex Green Submariner, which was more expensive before the disaster.
The delicate and wide dial is in sharp contrast with the girl's slender wrist. The loose strap hangs from the heel of the girl's palm and is covered with scratches caused by scratches.
"Hunting? Is this little girl's father a person with abilities?"
659 looked at the little girl who was crying, and her heart trembled inexplicably.
"Yes, the girl's father's name is Zhang Ning. If I remember correctly, he should be a physical enhancement system user. Well, it seems to be the second level..."
Bai Donggu was busy recalling everything about the girl's father, without noticing the rapidly changing expression on 659's face next to him.
"Zhang Ning?!"
Thunder exploded in 659's heart, this
The name was too familiar to him. If the possibility of the same name was ruled out, wouldn't it be his great-grandfather?
Although the timeline is different, strictly speaking, it can only be regarded as a variation of the great-grandfather of 659 in the Red Moon World.
"What should I do... Bai, General Bai... can you help me find my father... I will give you half of the goods..."
The little girl's face was covered with tears, and her originally pale and bloodless face became even more pitiful.
Hearing the girl's plea, Bai Donggu also sighed softly, as if he was afraid that he would become soft-hearted and turned his eyes elsewhere.
"Xiaoyi, it's not that I'm cruel, your father may be dead... Even if he is not dead, with the current military strength of the underground city, it will be difficult to dispatch manpower to carry out rescue missions..."
"And... your father is only a second-level ability user... and has not joined the Revenge Army yet..."
Bai Donggu lowered his hands, hiding his white-gloved left hand under the half-shoulder cloak. Only his black-gloved right hand was still exposed.
Although his words were as tactful as possible, the little girl still understood the cruelty of the truth.
"Everything! I am willing to give you all the goods. Please save my father..."
The girl's voice suddenly rose, her eyes filled with despair.
In fact, Bai Donggu understood that although the girl's goods were valuable, they were really not worth much, otherwise they would not have been placed in the trading square for so many days without being sold.
Even if the girl paid double the amount of goods to ask for help from the dungeon, it would still not be enough.
"thump!"
The muffled sound of bones hitting the stone surface echoed in the small room. The girl saw the expression on Bai Donggu's face clearly, and knowing that it was hopeless to ask General Bai to help, she turned around and knelt down towards 659 beside her.
"Brother, please, save my dad..."
"Save your father..."
Seeing that the little girl changed the direction of asking for help, 659 was not surprised. After all, the little girl relied on him when he was in the Exchange Square, and she probably guessed the reason for his special status.
Anyone who can be taken seriously by a mid-level general is definitely not a mediocre person.
With the little girl's alertness, it was not difficult to guess this.
"I'm very interested in meeting your father, but..."
Having said this, 659 deliberately lengthened his voice while observing the expression on the little girl's face with the corner of his eye.
The despair in the girl's eyes was gradually dispelled, and a light called hope appeared.
"Anything is fine, I can give you half of the goods! Oh no, it's all of it, I'll give it all to you! And this..."
The little girl knelt and moved forward two steps, skillfully took off the green water ghost from her wrist, and handed it to 659.
"This watch is also very expensive. Although it was made before the disaster, it runs very accurately now. My father said that it is not slower than half a minute..."
Looking at the Rolex with a delicate dial but full of scratches on the strap, Zhang Heng-659 showed a smile on his face.
"First Evolution"
“I don’t want your goods, and I don’t want your Rolex watch.”
659's body slowly squatted down, and his eyes were soon level with the little girl kneeling on the ground.
"You want the fragment, right?"
The hope in the girl's eyes has not disappeared, but there is just a little more hesitation.
"No, that fragment is of no use to me."
To the girl's expectation, 659 did not show much interest in the fragments of the broken blade.
It was as if the fragment had lost its value after determining its composition and became worthless in the eyes of this world breaker.
"Then what do you want...I...I don't have anything else, food? But I don't have any food either..."
The girl whom Bai Donggu called Xiaoyi lowered her head and her voice became softer and softer.
If 659 could see the girl's face at this time, he would find that the other person's face was full of confusion and hesitation.
After a few silent breaths, the girl seemed to have made up her mind. She raised her head and looked firmly at Dao 659 in front of her.
"I...I can accompany you once..."
