The strict rule of law can make people feel oppressive, but unrestricted freedom can be suffocating.

—The Autobiography of Terry, Vol. 12

The Yaragbu River is still flowing quietly, and although the mist has dissipated, the gloomy sky makes people feel extremely oppressive.

A stone platform made of countless pebbles, on which withered grass was spread. There was no brightly colored Hada, just a few leftover tent cloths pressed under the pebbles.

The gloomy sky, a few vultures swirling and flying. The mournful chirp made the silent grassland a little more miserable.

There is no prayer shaman, no barley wine to worship the heavens of eternal life, only corpses neatly arranged on a pebble platform, indicating that this is a funeral.

Nabu was lame on one foot, but he didn't seem to care, because the grief in his heart was completely above all else.

The people lying on the pebble platform were all the only sustenance for him struggling in this world.

There was Abba and Mom who gave birth to him and raised him, there was the Yen Pa (wife) who bore him children and shared weal and woe, there was the Abba (son) who he had just learned to call Abba, and there was the Boom (daughter) whom he loved and was most proud of.

Abba and Grandma's kind smile; Qinpa's delicate and speechless thoughtfulness; The cute innocence of Wabo.

Thinking of my beloved Boom, thinking of her eyes as clear as the Song of Songs, my ears still seem to echo with her clear singing voice like Gegen (prairie lark).

Nabu lay down under the stone platform, and he did not shed tears, for the tears had long since dried up. He did not wail, for words could no longer express the grief in his heart.

"All of them, stand upright, take off their hats."

Although the soldiers were in tattered clothes, they stood in front of the stone platform with a solemn face.

And Terry was not here at this time, because he was "punished" by Ensign Sean.

Even though this is the remnant of a rebel army, and despite the fact that everyone respects Terry's skills, and even though Terry is not strictly counted as a member of their team, he is also a soldier after all.

Trey's impulsiveness ruined Second Lieutenant Sean's plans, so he had to pay for his impulsiveness.

In Sean's plan, he originally wanted to use these captives to quickly seize the bandits' lair and establish a temporary base area.

But now all the captives have been killed by Terry, and now everyone knows very little about the bandits' lair, except for the specific location, and even don't know how many bandits are left behind in the lair, so the heavy responsibility of investigation can only fall on Terry, who made a "mistake".

Terry didn't refuse, in fact, he was very surprised by the change he had just made, but he didn't have any excuse, and walked alone in the direction of the bandits' lair with his rifle on his back.

By the time everyone was holding a funeral for Nabu's relatives, Terry had already walked more than 20 kilometers on the vast grassland and came to a small basin.

There are no tall peaks, no rolling mountains, and even dirt bags are so low, and it is difficult to have treacherous places on the grasslands that are easy to defend and difficult to attack, but this is an exception where the bandits are entrenched.

This is a small basin with a radius of several tens of square kilometers, and unlike the surrounding grasslands, this peculiar basin below the average altitude of the grasslands is full of green trees and strange rocks.

Standing on the edge of the basin, overlooking the sea of trees and stone forests with a radius of dozens of square kilometers, Terry has the feeling of standing on the edge of two worlds.

"Warning!"

At that moment, Terry's head heard the sound of the system hurrying.

"The inheritor is about to enter the third-level radiation zone! There is a possibility that there may be radiation sources that endanger the inherited body in this area, and the system recommends that the inheritor exchange for radiation protection equipment. ”

"Ahh Radiation Zone, what's going on? ”

Hearing the system's warning, Terry was also curious.

"Inheritor, according to the comparison of materials, the area you are about to enter was the explosion point of a powerful super nuclear bomb in prehistory, although hundreds of thousands of years have passed, there is still a certain radiation danger, please be careful."

"You mean the explosion that destroyed prehistoric civilizations?"

Hearing the system's explanation, Terry's mind couldn't help but think of the huge mushroom cloud sweeping across the city, and he couldn't help but shudder.

Finding a more secluded location, Terry climbed a huge tree, camouflaged it a little, and then calmed down and opened the system exchange interface.

Sure enough, in the system's exchange interface, Terry saw a disc-shaped object - a harmful ray absorber.

Patience spent 20 gold coins to buy this inconspicuous disc, you know, plus the killing of a dozen captives, Terry didn't have 100 gold coins on him.

Just as Terry was about to exit the system's redemption screen, a swarthy vest on his inventory caught his attention.

"Bulletproof vest, I almost forgot this item that the system rewarded."

Looking at the dark and thick vest, Terry remembered that this was the reward given by the system for killing the enemy for the first time, and thought that this time he would go deep behind the enemy to investigate, so he quickly took it out and put it on his body.

It's a vest with a soft texture, and I don't know what material it's made of.

Touching the soft skin and the bulletproof vest that looked thick but was very light on his body, Terry couldn't help but wonder how such clothing could resist the tremendous penetration of bullets.

However, thinking that the soldiers in the previous inheritance picture were also wearing similar vests, Terry didn't think much about it, and stuffed the exchanged disc into a pocket at random, and then slid down the tree and searched vigilantly in the dense forest.

A hidden mountain road runs along a meandering river in the middle of the field.

The road is lined with tall trees, and all kinds of vines and weeds almost hide the traces of the road, and if you don't look closely, you can't see it at all, it is a path that only allows one person to pass.

At this moment, Terry is cautiously groping his way along this path, and there is not a single living person along the way, but there are many dangers.

There is no need for traps, and the poisonous snakes and insects lurking in the weeds are enough for passers-by to eat a pot.

If it weren't for Terry's keen observation and super hearing, these poisonous snakes and insects that were almost integrated with the surrounding environment would be enough to make Terry die a few times.

After more than 3 hours of fumbling, when the cloudy clouds in the sky slowly dispersed and the scorching sun shone through the gaps in the trees, Terry finally found his destination.

It was a small open field in the middle of the forest, and a small fortress made of huge tree stumps and a jumble of stones appeared before him.

The wall of the rampart is circular, about 50 meters from the surrounding woods, and it is so clean that anyone who wants to pass through the 50 meters of open space will be spotted by the sentry who wanders around the wall.

And Terry, who was hiding on a tree and looking at the fortress from afar, saw very clearly that there were two tall watchtowers in all four directions of the fortress, and at the top of the watchtowers, there were several figures with guns hovering.

I didn't expect the other party to be so heavily guarded, and it seems that there are still a lot of bandits in this fortress, and it is not easy to take this fortress by force, with Ensign Sean and a few of them, thinking of this, Terry also regrets his impulsiveness.