Chapter Eighty-Nine: Britz-style Pickpocketing Screams
Tucci crouched in front of a pile of debris, allowing the vast array of plague rats to devour its food reserves, and the only thing in front of it was the pile of tools that humans would use.
It stretched out its wet paws and fiddled through the pile, grabbing a waterproof green coat.
It blinked, remembering with its yet-to-the-art brain what Catelyn was looking like in a trench coat, and followed suit and tossed it on.
Tucci felt that the two sleeves were too much of a problem, so he took them off and used his sharp front teeth to nibble the sleeves short and put them back on.
Out of the way!
It laughed happily twice, and the rats stopped eating strangely, looked at it for a while, felt that it couldn't understand, and then continued to move.
Tucci then finds a goggle from the clutter, and when he puts it on, he realizes that he can see things in the distance!
Oh, I seem to be a big myopia, otherwise how could there be such a word as rat eyes?
Then Tucci pulled out an alchemy-powered repeater from it, and its deft tail curled up several tubes containing highly volatile venom reagents.
After a few test shots, Tucci was very satisfied with the alchemical crossbow used by humans, and green steam curled up from the exhaust port, like the smoke of gunpowder after it was ignited, and it was extremely powerful.
Just now, it imitated Caitlyn's shot, and the arrow it fired accidentally caused four or five plague rats to turn into strings in an instant.
Tucci was simply sad for a second, then laughed out loud with satisfaction.
"Tucci wants to dominate the sewers of Zaun! But before I can do that, I'll have to give myself a big name! ”
Tucci scratched his belly and pulled a poison lice out of it and licked it into his mouth.
"How's the rat bandit? No, the names of the alchemy barons are much better. ”
"I'm a plague rat, otherwise I'd call it the source of the plague, hehehe."
In the dimly lit sewers, there was a creepy laugh.
……
After escaping from the sewers, Jeno put down Caitlyn on the spot, and the other party hurriedly straightened his fangs and claws' hair, and thanked Jeno embarrassedly.
"It's okay."
Jeno took out the spare clothes and told Caitlyn to turn her head to change out of her rat-bitten, foul-smelling rags.
"Sir, although you look embarrassed in rags, you look really beautiful when you hold Caitlin in the rat colony."
"Hex, you spy around to see if Tucci is stealth."
At this time, it was already dark outside, and Jeno didn't have to worry about being seen when he changed his clothes.
But...... No one wants to see it.
"Let's go, the night in Zaun is not peaceful, let's go back with a scream."
Jeno tightened his clothes, hid the Hex core in his clothes, and stepped into the light, Catelyn following with her rifle in her hand.
"In other words, there are many urban legends in Zaun.
The howler howls at night, and the next day several corpses of bad guys are found in a small alley, which seems to exist specifically to hunt the wicked, but sometimes it can get out of control and kill its victims. There is also the green rubber man, which appears when someone bullies the weak, but the movement of the battle is so great that it often collapses the house.
If the enforcers of Zu'an are such a group of strange things, then the people of Zu'an are really living in dire straits. ”
Caitlin's voice was muffled through the breathing mask.
As a native of Picheng, due to various legal restrictions and one-sided reports, even in the position of sheriff, Caitlin's understanding of Zaun is very one-sided.
Heavily polluted, environmentally toxic, and dark dungeons; a gathering place for law-evading criminals and mad scientists that Picheng can't tolerate; the indulgent exploitation of unstable technologies and reckless industries; Lawlessness, gangsters and black merchants became the rulers of the city.
There is hardly a good impression that such a city can really live?
"That's not a legend, it's true." Jeno said without looking back, sticking in his pocket.
"Oh? Then I'd love to see it. Caitlin spoke briskly, not showing any fear at all.
"You won't want to see them."
"You seem to know them well."
As they spoke, the two of them had already arrived on the platform, and before the next class of screams arrived, there were a few passers-by standing on the platform waiting for the screams, and one of them was so intrigued by Jeno that he forgot to answer Caitlin's words.
Jeno walked up to the feet of a large brass robot, patted its round belly, and greeted happily:
"Hello, Britz."
"Hello ......"
Britz looked down at the human who had taken the initiative to greet him, and responded happily.
As a robot that craves recognition, a small greeting will also make it more determined to have the meaning of its existence.
"I remember you...... ...... 2 months ago"
Jeno also remembers that the first hero he saw in the poison fog accident was Britz, who tried to save him, but Victor disagreed.
"Are you alright...... I'll just ...... Relieved. ”
Britz laughed, touching his shiny bald head back and forth.
"Don't worry."
"Isn't this just a recycling robot?" Caitlyn leaned over and looked at Britz curiously.
"Yes, that's right, but not exactly, Blitz is a special robot." Jeno explained with a smile.
"It's very special, very big."
She can't see this kind of large-scale recycling robot in Picheng, and she doesn't have a good opinion of this rough and simple shape.
"Britz, where are you going with a scream?"
"Buy...... Dinner...... Go home. ”
Jeno: "Dinner? Engine oil? ”
Caitlin: "This size can also be used to scream?" I can't stuff it in. ”
Britz had a lot of points in his words, which led to very different questions from Jeno and Caitlyn.
To this, Britz replied that he put dinner in his stomach, and then the screaming elevator arrived.
But for Britz, the screech is a harmonious symphony of noise, a melody mixed with thousands of different sounds.
So it's always going to be attracted to this machine.
A few passengers walked out of the elevator, and then several more people walked into the elevator and scattered throughout the cabin: merchants who went to set up stalls in the Zu'an Night Market, workers who went home from work to sleep, and wealthy Zu'an people who went to the glass dome cultivation tower to admire the night flowers.
There are also a few stowaways returning home on the Screaming Lift, scurrying into it: Plague Rats, Shadow Rabbits, and Beetles.
Jeno and Caitlyn walked into the elevator, and the two found a glass wall to lean onto, and Caitlyn saw how Britz was screaming:
It didn't enter the cabin through the door, because its bloated body couldn't squeeze into the cramped iron door frame.
Britz hung out of the cabin, his hands firmly gripping the iron rod at the bottom, and beneath the iron rod was a glass window frame made of ribbed steel.
It lay firmly on the lift, the machine moving upward, the vibration causing the metal body of Blitz to clank against the lift fuselage, attracting the eyes of many passengers, and the administrator's face was full of disgust, Blitz could recognize the meaning of various facial expressions, and this ability improved every day.
"There's such a heavy robot hanging outside, this scream won't overturn." Caitlin was shocked, and a trace of worry welled up in her heart.
"Don't be shocked, it's common to scream. Although it was also the first time I had seen a Britz pickpocket screech. ”
Regarding Caitlin's flag, Jeno said that there was nothing to be afraid of, and this kind of younger brother behavior was very common in Zaun.
It's just rare and weird.