"Didi!"
While walking, Margulies' black watch suddenly sounded a beep.
She raised her hand and looked at it, then her face showed joy.
[congratulations! Your attributes have been improved during long-term exercise, and your physical fitness is +1]
[Personal attribute update...]
[Name: Margulies]
[Title: Earl's Daughter, Top Student]
[Identity number: HumMs5008374923873]
[Social credit rating: perfect+]
[Life status: Health]
[Strength: 32]
[Agility: 35]
[Physique: 47]
[Spiritual power: 55]
[Innate ability: Psychic Touch, Emerald Garden]
[Registered skills (Ice Blue City Government Hall): piano (advanced), ballet (advanced), imperial guard fighting skills (intermediate)]
[Registered spells (Ice Blue City Government Hall): Psychic Armor (lv2) Charged Shot (lv2)]
[Registered occupation (Iceblue City Government Hall): Student (Grade 11 of Iceblue City Ninth Noble Middle School)]
[Unregistered (system assessment only) Skills: Cooking (almost no knowledge) Cleaning (almost no knowledge) Numeracy (algebra, geometry) Eloquence (runner-up in high school debate competition)...]
[Gold held: 81 gold, 2 silver and 3 copper (cash), 24,907 gold, 6 silver, 9 copper and 2 cents (bank)]
Compared to a year ago, due to Chen Xing's gift of 100,000 gold coins, Margulies purchased a lot of evolution potions and now has a quasi-guardian level of strength.
And this is under the premise that she is underage and her potential has not been fully explored.
You must know that the three basic attributes of the black watch are not absolute. It is only a systematic evaluation and is limited to a reference role. Moreover, the three basic attributes fluctuate up and down, and will change with age, different physical conditions, cell activity levels, injuries, illnesses, aging and other factors, and the fluctuations can reach 70%.
As she grows older, Margulies' basic attributes will continue to increase until she reaches full adulthood.
It must be said that her talent is very good, so she won the title of "top student".
Top students, which means “excellent talents reserved and paid attention to by the state,” will receive a fixed amount of aid every month.
Above top students, there are also "proud ones of heaven". In addition to aid funds, they can also apply for some high-end resources from their kingdom.
Although she became a declining noble after the death of Earl Ursula, the resources available to Margulies were by no means comparable to those of a street kid like Chen Xing who was born in the city.
On the starting line, I don’t know how many laps have been thrown.
In Chen Xing's original form, even having enough to eat was a problem.
Nowadays, Chen Xing's biggest shortcoming is his physical fitness, which is largely attributed to the hardships he endured in his childhood. If nutrition cannot keep up, physical development will be hindered, and physical fitness will naturally not be good.
Coupled with the differences in talent, there was a huge gap in the end. Even if it is combined with the life mark of the insect-turned-wolf, it is difficult to make up for it.
However, Chen Xing has already crossed the most difficult barrier. After entering the holy realm, the role of physical fitness is no longer so obvious. In the future, as the strength increases, the role of physical fitness will become smaller and smaller, and the battle will rely on Yuling instead.
Just like the Legend of the Deep Sea, with a casual wave of your hand, thousands of cannons were fired, and the swarm of steam silkworms were instantly driven away.
Near noon, the group finally crossed the Red Rock Mountains and entered the northern wilderness.
"Didi!"
The black watch beep sounded again.
[Entered satellite signal coverage area, connecting...]
[Hello, Miss Margulies, you have successfully connected to the global satellite network]
"Didi!"
[Connection error, network disconnected...]
[Network reconnecting...]
Everyone's black watch seemed to have an error, and the signal was constantly connected and disconnected.
This is a phenomenon unique to the borders of the Principality, where the signal is intermittent and sometimes not working.
Margulies hesitated for a long time, but finally did not send an email to Chen Xing to inform her of her location.
Because she wanted to give the master a surprise.
During this period of time, she has been imagining what Chen Xing's expression would be like if he suddenly appeared in front of him.
Crossing the border, we entered the endless northern wilderness. The vegetation is sparse and there are low red earth hills everywhere.
From the rugged mountain road to the plains, everyone felt obviously much more relaxed.
Now it was noon, and there were no rocks to block it, so the sun was much stronger. Margulies and Mrs. Ursula both stopped to apply sunscreen.
The middle-aged maid and cook pulled up the blanket to block the male's view.
"I bought sunscreen oil specially designed for female mercenaries. Do you want to try it?" "This smells very strong, like butter." "Maybe it's butter..."
After working on it for nearly half an hour, under Brooke's repeated urging, we finally set off.
"Go to the village later and see if you can get a car." Brooke suggested.
"That's for sure, otherwise we can walk." After saying this, Margulies seemed to have remembered something, "By the way, wasn't there a lot of robbers in the wasteland? How come I haven't seen one after walking for a long time? .”
"What do you mean?" Brooke felt that his mind was a little confused.
"We robbed their car, wouldn't we have a car?" Margulies said.
Brooke didn't want to talk anymore and walked forward with her head buried in the ground.
The journey was uneventful, and in the evening, we finally arrived at the refugee village marked on the map.
This is a large village, at least several square kilometers at a glance.
The houses are made of red clay bricks. The production method is very simple. First, use red clay to make large square bricks, pile them into a semicircle, and then light a fire inside to dry out the moisture in the bricks.
Due to the high viscosity of red soil, cement is not used and the walls are directly covered with red soil. The roof is made of fast-growing redwood trees cut down in the middle of the Red Rock Mountains and covered with hay.
In addition to the earthen houses, there are large areas of tents. From a distance, women were sitting at the door chatting, and naked children were running around. It was a peaceful and tranquil scene.
"You guys wait outside, I'll go in and investigate." Brooke said. Before that, he only hung out in the south of Longhe and had never been to the north.
After entering the village, Brooke found that no one paid attention to him. It seems that there are often outsiders, and the villagers are accustomed to them and don't pay special attention to them.
After entering the village and observing for a while, he didn't feel anything unusual. Brooke called the others in.
There is a large stone standing at the entrance of the village, with the four characters "Guzala Village" engraved on it, and a string of Western Continent letters next to it.
Entering the village is a large open space with a small grocery store next to it. A rectangular sales window was dug into the earthen wall. There were tables and benches outside. The ground was covered with scraps of melon rinds and confetti, as well as many sunflower seed shells.
Several shirtless little boys were playing and chasing each other in front of the store. Due to long-term sun exposure, my skin is very dark, and I roll on the ground. My pants are covered with dust and I feel dirty.
Seeing such a scene, Mrs. Ursula's expression was very
pain. She lives in the Sapphire District of Ice Blue City, one of the cleanest places in the world, even the sewers are cleaner than here.
There was some unknown gray stuff on the ground. She asked the maid and found out that it was chicken or duck excrement.
There is a large pond in the middle of the open space. The water inside is dark and inky. A group of women are washing clothes by the pond.
Before this, the dirtiest place she had ever been was when she was doing errands in Baihu City and passed by the slum intersection. But even the slums are more than ten times stronger than here.
"Boss, is there a place to stay here?" Brooke stepped forward and asked.
"Erdan's house over there runs a hotel."
Following the direction pointed by the shop owner, the group came to a large courtyard. It is surrounded by red clay walls and the door is a cloth curtain.
After opening the curtain and going in, there were several wooden tables and long benches in the open air. There was already a table of people eating inside, all carrying firearms. They looked like they were mercenaries, or an extended profession of mercenaries - robbers.
Seeing someone coming in, a young guy with a white towel on his head ran over, with a simple smile on his face.
"Guest, are you staying in a hotel or eating?"
Brooke did not answer, but turned to look at Mrs. Ursula, asking for her opinion.
"Is there anything better?" asked Mrs. Ursula.
"Our house is the only hotel in the village." With one sentence, the young man blocked all the escape routes for Mrs. Ursula.
"Then here," sighed Mrs. Ursula.
She swore it was the absolute worst place she had ever been in her life.
"Master will be there soon." Margulies comforted her.
"Come on, do it!" "Do it!" "This donkey meat is so fucking delicious!" "Come on, do it again!" "Okay!" The man at the table next to him yelled, making a lot of noise. People's eardrums hurt.
"What do you want for the guests? Today we have braised elbows with donkey meat in sauce. We also killed a dog this morning. The dog meat is stewed with medicinal herbs. It's very fragrant." The young man introduced.
"What, what, you, how can you eat your own family?" Mrs. Ursula was shocked. In her mind, dogs are family members, so how can they eat family members?
Looking at the greasy dishes and chopsticks on the table and the astonishing ingredients, Mrs. Ursula finally couldn't bear it anymore and offered to let the cook and maid go to the kitchen to cook. They would use their own tableware and pay separately.
The store owner naturally agreed, as long as he could make money.
The maid and the cook kept busy until eight o'clock in the evening, when they finally had a decent dinner.
She had given up on the lack of pre-dinner drinks and dessert.
"Do you have cars for sale?" After dinner, Brooke asked the shop boy.
"Sand Lizard Car?" the shop boy asked.
The sand lizard is a mutated creature, as big as a crocodile, with a docile personality and great strength. It is the main transportation animal for the refugee villages after the cataclysm.
"Motor vehicle," Brooke said.
"There's no such thing. There are only a few large trucks transporting grain in the village, and the village chief won't sell them." The shop boy shook his head and said.
Although there are no cars in the village, after asking about where to go, the shop boy gave some suggestions. It's autumn now. According to the time agreed last year, the circus will come to the village to perform in a few days. Then they can take the circus' ride to the north.
The Wilderness Circus is a wandering group that travels to refugee villages and edge towns all over the country, collecting performance fees and selling some small commodities.
There are a lot of people, they have guards, and they are relatively friendly. It will be safer to follow them.
"Then, let's stay for a few days..." Mrs. Ursula made a difficult decision. Even if it's a little dirty here, it's still better than dining out and sleeping in the open air.
