Act 156 New name Kate
It's not crazy, it's not a living corpse, it seems to be rational, and looking at the shape of the figure, it seems to be a human being.
Neller stopped making noise, and Lin marked the figure with the prey marker, then raised his gun and approached step by step.
In grayscale vision, the originally flat silhouette has details as the distance approaches, and it becomes concave and convex.
Looking at it again, it was already certain that the figure was a human being, and it seemed to be a young girl. It's just that, for some reason, she was lying in the coffin, and when the coffin opened, she was still able to wake up.
"Have you seen enough?" The figure turned its head, and its long black hair danced with it, a crisp girlish voice.
Lin subconsciously felt that this woman was a trouble, and he didn't have time to speak yet. Naylor, who was accusing Lin of killing Nicol just now, had already run in front of Lin and said to the girl, "Are you a human or a monster?" ”
"Of course I'm human." The girl stood up from the coffin and stepped out of the coffin, looking a little elegant.
She didn't pay attention to Neller anymore, walked in front of Lin in a few steps, looked at the gun still facing her in Lin's hand, and said without panic at all, "Why are you so nervous?" ”
She looked Lin up and down a few times and said, "You're a mercenary, I have a task you can't take." ”
"What task?" Lin asked.
He didn't smell any danger from the girl who crawled out of the coffin, but he didn't take it lightly. An enemy who can deceive intuition is often more terrifying than an enemy who can feel threatened.
The maiden said, "I need you to deliver a piece of goods to the Emerald City, and the pay is very high, and you will definitely be willing." ”
"What cargo? Where is the Emerald City? Lin continued.
He knew that the goods that this girl was talking about were definitely not ordinary goods, and he had never heard of the name Emerald City.
The largest city he knew of in this wasteland was the Angel Academy, the City of Angels. Smaller towns are places such as Pendulum Town, Qingquan Town, and so on. As for what Emerald City, he hadn't even heard of it.
"The goods are me, as for the Emerald City, have you ever heard of the Federation of Thirteen Cities?" While the girl replied to Lin's question, she threw out a new question.
Lin shook his head.
The girl glanced at Lin, then at Neller, Srose, and Joel beside Lin and sighed. It seems to sigh how backward and ignorant people in the poor countryside are.
"The Federation of Thirteen Cities, established eighty-nine years after the war, is the largest organization on the west coast of the continent. You don't even know that? The girl said.
Srose looked at this girl with long hair that made her envious, and she was very overwhelmed by her way of speaking with emphasis, she snorted in a nasal voice, and then said, "This noble lady, the land under your feet now is on the east coast of the continent. I don't think you know what this place under your feet is called. ”
"East Coast? So far? The girl seemed a little surprised, but her face calmed down immediately.
"Alright, mercenary, since it's on the East Coast now, then you'll be paid more to send me to the Emerald City. How about this? The girl took out a small box out of nowhere, stretched out her arm, and handed it to Lin.
Lin was okay, Joel and Neller, seeing the girl's white and flawless, white and tender arms like lotus roots, swallowed their saliva.
Srose looked at the two anxious guys and snorted heavily.
"Genetic potions?" Lin quickly recognized what the girl was holding in her hand, "How many steps?" ”
"Fourth Order of the Perception Domain." The girl said.
Lin didn't take the small box in the girl's hand, but frowned. The fourth-order ability gene medicine is a high-end product that can't be bought with 50,000 bottle caps. Even if it occasionally appears on the market, it belongs to the kind of situation where there is no market, and it is often fried to 100,000 bottle caps, which is not impossible.
It seems a bit abnormal that there is so much remuneration for just one escort mission. There are both benefits and risks, and the higher the returns, the greater the risks, and it seems that this is not a simple escort mission.
"Isn't that enough? Then this should be considered as a deposit. When you send me to Emerald City, how about I pay for another genetic potion with a fifth-order ability? The girl said.
Although, genetic medicine cannot allow a person who does not have enough potential to forcibly possess a fifth-order ability. If it is really forcibly promoted in this way, it will have a serious compensatory effect.
For example, this genetic medicine can make people have sensitive hands, if the potential is not enough, the evolution point is not enough people to use it, they may lose their hearing, or become blind, and there is a chance that their legs will fail and become paralyzed.
In short, what you gain is what you lose. In the City of Angels, there are quite a few such people.
The price of the fifth-order gene medicine is almost ten times that of the fourth-order, that is, between 500,000 bottle caps and 1 million bottle caps.
Lin struggled for a while, but still did not get rid of the temptation of the bottle cap, he said, "I took this task." However, there are a few points that I need to make clear now.
One, I don't ask you who you are, why do you want to go to the Emerald City without telling me.
Two, I will guarantee your safety along the way, but you must follow my arrangement. ”
The girl bowed her head and pondered for a while and said, "That's all, okay, I promised." Let's go now. ”
"My mission now is to protect these children, and when we get them back, we can go." Lin said.
"Send it, send it." The girl waved her hand impatiently.
"Let's go, let's go back together." Lin said to the three remaining shipbreakers beside him.
"Wait, we're going to take the silver off these coffins, and we'll be able to get many, many caps, and we'll be rich and we'll no longer be shipbreakers." As he spoke, Neller ran to the ten coffins.
The girl looked at the ignorant Naylor, a little impatient, and said, "Don't bother, those are not coffins, nor are they made of silver. You people are really stupid to treat these survival boxes as coffins of the old era? And a dead person? It's ridiculous. ”
Neller heard the girl's mocking words, and quickly remembered that the priest had said that silver was very soft, and teeth could be marked when they were bitten. So, he immediately lay on the ground and bit hard, these shiny and reflective, high-end looking coffins.
"Ahh
Neller's bite was left with some tooth marks on the box, and he felt like his teeth were about to break.
This is not a coffin?
No silver?
Then we planned for two months for what, and what Nicol died for.
Nayler's face was filled with layers of confusion.
The blood of innocents is worthless in the wasteland.
Bappi was woken up, and he carried the hammer and looked at the crowd that had come to him.
"Coming back? What did you do? He asked.
Lin was hired by Bucky, and naturally he was also responsible for explaining, and he explained what the little guys were doing in a concise manner, and finally said that Nick was dead.
Hearing that Nick was dead, Bappy's brows didn't even move, human lives in the wasteland were not valuable, and he was no longer surprised by the trivial matter of death. Only those flowers in the greenhouse will make a fuss about the dead person.
"Nick is dead...... Nick is dead......" Neller muttered in frustration as he looked at his hands, his eyes wide open.
Bappi glanced at Lin, Lin spread his hands, Bappi shrugged, and he asked everyone to go back to their rooms. As if nothing had happened tonight, Neller hadn't gone out, Nick hadn't died, and there wasn't anyone more behind Lin.
As Lin returned to the room, the girl took off her hood, took off her dirty coat, twisted the corner of her coat with two fingers, and threw it aside in disgust.
Just now Babpi didn't ask anything about her, as if he hadn't seen it. Lin also tacitly did not mention it, the more he knew, the more trouble he had, which was a widely recognized truth in the wasteland.
Don't talk too much, ask more, don't listen much, don't know if you ask three questions, this is the lowest cost way to protect yourself.
Lin's gaze skimmed over the girl's body without lingering too much. Looking at her fair and delicate skin, Lin took out a small handful of brown fruit from his pocket, threw it into the mire crab shell, smashed it with the butt of a gun, mixed it with half a liter of purified water, and asked, "Do you come by yourself, or will I help you?" ”
The girl's complexion is too white, too clean, too healthy, and the temptation to walk on the wasteland like a five-star bottle cap in the shape of a human is not too great.
The solution prepared by Lin Yiguo is a dyeing agent that can dye this white complexion into a less healthy brown. This brown color is similar to that of most people in the wasteland, and it is less conspicuous, which naturally avoids many problems.
"Do you really want to paint it?" The girl looked at the dark paste in the mire crab shell, and her face was embarrassed.
"Tu, you're too conspicuous now, I don't have the ability to escort you to the Emerald City. I already said when I took the task, and everything came according to my request. Lin said.
The girl looked at the muddy dye and didn't dislike it too much, she couldn't tolerate a dirty piece of clothing, and naturally she couldn't accept it being applied to her body.
After trying a few times, the girl who couldn't bear to attack herself said to Lin, "You come and help me paint." ”
"Okay." Lin replied neatly. Walked up to the girl in three steps and two steps, and ripped off the clothes covering the girl's body. His hand was inserted into the paste in the mirelurk shell, and he wiped it off the girl's body with his hand stained with juice.
His hand was very steady, not fast, and the dye was evenly applied to every inch of the girl's skin, from the scalp to the lower body, not sparing any part.
The scene was not at all beautiful.
The girl had closed her eyes at first, gritting her teeth as if she had resigned herself to her fate, and after a few minutes she opened her eyes and looked curiously at the strange young man in front of her, smearing her body with her dirty hands.
Not shy, look curiously.
"I'm done, go and stand there." Lin pointed to the table under the vent and asked her to stand on it to dry.
The girl was unusually obedient according to her words, as if her sharp teeth and sharp mouth were all hallucinations.
Lin didn't look at the girl standing on the table, with a pair of big eyes rolling around, looking down at him. Instead, they collect the clothes that the girls have taken off and gather them together. With a snap of his fingers, a cluster of faint blue flames appeared from his fingertips, and the translucent gauze clothes turned to ashes under this slightly bewitching flame.
"When can I come down, it's already dry, it's so itchy!" The girl standing on the table, facing the air drying of the vent, shouted twenty-third.
"Wait." Lin responded.
At this moment, he is dealing with warheads soaked in solution, holding a small tool to deal with the deformation of these warheads.
"You're so stingy, I see that you don't miss a few bullets in the cap, why do you care so much about these broken warheads. I'll pay you more than 10,000 bullets like this to fill a house the size of 10,000. The air-dried girl stood bored, looked at Lin who was carefully handling the bullet casings, and provoked the conversation.
Lin didn't seem to hear it, still dealing with the warhead. The moonlight shone through the window near the room and fell on the table, and the girl's keto body was not as delicate as she had just come out of the "coffin", and became much more wild.
She shook off the scab left on her skin as the dye had dried up, revealing a new complexion that was a little darker than wheat.
Lin looked at her and said, "Okay." "Throw her a few gender-neutral clothes.
The girl put on these clothes that did not have the slightest beauty in the cut, and moved and moved, feeling uncomfortable all over her body.
Lin watched her quietly until she stopped moving, and after calming down, she said, "Your new name is Kate." ”
"Why is it called Kate?" The brown girl tilted her head, although her skin color had changed, her movements had not changed, and she still revealed an atmosphere of "aristocratic pampering".
Lin pointed out the window, and the girl turned her head to see a Cheshire cat, and Lin said, "I call you Kate because I want you to be as agile and good at survival as the Cheshire cat." By the way, put your bracelet away, it's too delicate and conspicuous. ”
"No!" Kate shouted. She took a defensive posture and touched the bracelet before relieving herself.
Lin could see that this bracelet was very important to her, and since she was unwilling to take it off, she naturally had to think of other solutions. He threw out a rag and a cloud of mud and said, "Wrap that up your thing." ”
Kate looked at the mud and rags, at first it was difficult to accept, then a little angry, and finally as if resigned to her fate, she looked at her new complexion, grabbed the mud and pasted it evenly on the bracelet, and then wrapped it around the mud with a bandage.
The next morning, the sun rose as usual.
Shipbreakers have started work one after another, and this port on the wild coast has resumed its busy yesterday. When Lin and Bappi said goodbye, they saw Neller digging into the pipe again with a rope wrapped around his waist, looking for small metal parts that could be removed.
Everything last night, except for the death of a Nick, didn't seem to change anything.
"I'm gone, this time I may have gone a little far, and I may not be able to come back on time to trade with you. I suggest you find another postman to help you carry your medicine. May the brilliance of the scavenging gods be with you, goodbye. ”
Lin leaves the Savage Coast with Kate.