Chapter 40: Above the Abyss
"What are you crying about, have you been found out or have you been bullied?"
Seeing Keisha return safely, Kane just wanted to put his mind at ease, but he saw her eyes red when she took off her helmet, and immediately became worried.
Keisha didn't speak, reaching out and handing over a wooden comb. Kane took it and was stunned, why was it a comb.
"Let's go down and talk, it's not too hidden here."
Back in the open area, Kesha's tears had stopped, Kane showed her comb and asked her straight to the point:
"Did you take this because I said I was going to give you a comb?"
He deliberately took care of Keisha's self-esteem, which had already been broken once, and said "take" instead of "steal".
Keisha nodded and shook her head, plausible, Kane's reason was only half of the way.
She took the comb because she thought it was the cheapest thing to make her feel the least guilty. But she didn't expect that after taking it, even the cheapest guilt could overwhelm her.
Seeing that she was silent, Kane took a comb to comb her hair. Keisha immediately took a few steps back in a panic, as if the comb was more terrifying than any monster.
"If you don't need it, why do you want to take it?" He sighed, he had a problem with this. thought he couldn't use it underground, so he rarely emphasized to her how to behave in the world.
It's understandable that Keisha likes these things, it's good to steal things and educate them, but it's a bit abnormal to blame herself so much after stealing things.
Under Kane's questioning, Keisha finally spoke, but not to answer his question:
"If I didn't have this terrible skin, wouldn't I be able to buy what I like like like other girls?"
Kane pursed his lips silently, and sure enough, it was because of this.
With skin armor, she can't be an ordinary girl. It's obviously a simple happiness, but she can't have it, and her heart is depressed.
But has she ever thought that the ability of stealth is something that ordinary girls can have?
Stealth doesn't like it? Skin and nails too ugly? Violence doesn't suit?
What about such a perfect body? This normal girl definitely did it, right?
Keisha is still too one-sided.
"It's true that it's pitiful that girls can't go shopping, but it's not the same thing as you taking other people's things, and good girls don't do that."
This time, even Kane didn't defend himself, and Keisha felt that she was really wrong.
"I haven't used it yet, can I return it?"
Kane didn't answer, he silently pulled out a gold coin from between the cracks in his armor and placed it in Kesha's hand.
"Why do you have money?" Keisha was stunned at first, why did Kane have money? But she immediately figured out that it was the birdseller's legacy......
"You quietly put the money back, and you buy a comb."
He knew it wasn't right, but Keisha was in a special situation, and he could see that she wanted the comb.
"But people still haven't agreed, is this considered a forced purchase and forced sale?" Keisha was momentarily entangled.
"The same comb can be bought for dozens of dollars, and the businessman will not refuse it for profit. However, don't do this next time, bear with me for a while, and I'll accompany you to go shopping openly. ”
"Good ......" Keisha only felt a burst of emotion, and was about to return to the bazaar with the gold coin, but was quickly stopped by Kane.
"Aren't you hungry? Wait for tomorrow, don't go today. ”
Stealth also consumes energy, and the less energy there is, the hungrier the skin armor becomes. Kane sometimes wonders if one day they are too hungry and don't have enough to eat, is it going to be their turn?
"Let's go hunting."
"Oh."
Keisha was already confused at this point, and stupidly followed behind Kane, listening to him for a while.
"I suspect you did it on purpose, and if you take the comb, you have a reason to go back up, right? I've seen through your cleverness. ”
"How can I!" Keisha snorted.
She felt aggrieved at first, but when she thought of being turned around and praised for being smart, her mood suddenly felt much better.
Kane uses radar to track down the void creatures, while Keisha is still immersed in the beautiful yearning for the earthly world, and does not realize that these beautiful things are like dreams on the wings of cicadas, extremely fragile.
They came to a cave in order to hunt, and when they saw that the light on the cave wall did not come from themselves, but was illuminated by something alien below, they suddenly noticed a familiar uneasiness.
"Could it be ......?"
Kane looked down the slope and saw the lake where the purple light converged, reflecting ripples from another dimension.
And the creatures on the ground don't know anything about it.
He discovers a terrifying fact - this settlement was actually built on an abyss!
The two looked at each other, frowning, and realized the seriousness of the matter.
This abyss is so close to the ground that it means it is doubly dangerous.
Once the Void creatures discover the creatures on the ground, the settlement will be wiped out overnight! Erased from the edge of Shurima!
"Kane, we have to do something! We must come to the rescue! Keisha was so touched by the sight of the ground that she couldn't stand idly by.
On the one hand, her conscience couldn't get over, and on the other hand, she couldn't let the void swallow up and grow like this.
This time it's a small settlement, then next time it could be a town! Especially after Kane said that nearly half of Shurima's underground was hollowed out by the Void creatures, it went from being possible to happening sooner or later.
Kane knows Kesha's temperament, and she can't let people be swallowed up by the void.
She knows very well that she is unique, that there is a river beneath the world in which people live, and that she is the antidote.
This sense of responsibility has awakened, and it is difficult for him to reverse her stubbornness.
So, he didn't extinguish her thankless idea, even if in the end people denied what she had done to save them.
"How to save it? Do you have any ideas? Kane cupped his chin and made a thoughtful look.
Keisha didn't realize that she was about to face the biggest setback of her life, so she thought about it seriously and said, "We can't seal the abyss, and the void creatures will crawl out of it in an endless stream, so let's let the people above move away." ”
"They won't move easily, and the cost of moving in the desert is not small." Kane pursed his lips, thinking to himself Keisha, you haven't seen the power of the nail household.
"There is nothing more important than life, and if they don't move, then threaten them with death!" Keisha clenched her fists, and her expression became serious.
"It's okay to threaten, but we can't have direct contact with people, and it's better to let them move out without knowing us from start to finish."
"Hey, that's hard!" Keisha wanted to go up and scare them away.
But she may not have thought about it, humans are united creatures. One person would be afraid of her, but what if there were hundreds?
The results will surprise her.
"That's right." Kane lowered his head, his gaze deep.
He never thought it would be easy for this matter to be resolved.