Chapter 13: Small Talk
"Let's go?!" Victoria called me.
I shook my head again and again: "Don't go, it's too scary, don't go!" β
Victoria rolled her eyes in anger and kicked me in the ass, and I honestly got up and walked forward with Victoria.
"Why don't you go?" Victoria asked me a little later.
"That thing didn't kill, it must be wandering around here, I'm afraid that when we encounter danger again, it will come out and attack us!" I explained.
"Where are you going?" I asked Victoria.
Victoria was also stunned, because the main hall turned around, and there was no way out, so it seemed that she could only go back.
Seeing that Victoria couldn't find a way to continue, I suggested, "Why don't you go back, go back, it might be better!" β
I remember that when I came, there were still many forks in the road, and I might be able to find a different way by walking back.
Victoria agreed to my suggestion, but as we walked back, we were surprised to find, "Where's the road?" β
Victoria and I were stunned, and there was no way out of the main hall.
"Damn! And sure enough, it was! I scolded helplessly.
"What? Did you expect that? Victoria looked incredulous.
"Not really, it's just that based on my years of experience, it's never that simple! Think about it, we came here, it's a female ghost, according to my guess, the female ghost here should be a small copy, a level, a small boss, how can we let us just go if we haven't cleared the level, don't you say? "I'm talking about the Tao, and I'm very insider.
"Then according to you, you have to kill the female ghost before you can continue?" Victoria asked me.
"Theoretically, it's like this, let's continue to look for it first, see if we can find the exit, if we really can't find it, we can only wait, when the female ghost appears again!" I'm not sure.
So after that, we searched this hall over and over again, but we still didn't find a way out.
There wasn't even a trace of it, Victoria and I looked for the place we came in in our memory several times, not to mention that there was a door, there was not a single crack, how to look at it, how it looked like a whole, there was no way out at all.
Looking at the black dome and the bubbling magma pool, I was a little discouraged, "If we don't hallucinate, the way out is either in the magma pool or on top." β
Whether it's the magma pool, or above, we have no way now, and there is no way at all, the magma is thousands of degrees hot, and if you go in, you will die.
The dome was pitch black, and under the strong flashlight, it was clear at a glance that there was nothing, and I had tried to climb it, but it was impossible to climb the dome without the help of any tools.
After a few hours, I said to Victoria, "Otherwise, let's rest for a while, the light is not the way, since you can't get out, it is better to rest well, recuperate, the female ghost will come back sooner or later." β
It doesn't seem like much time, but since I woke up, so far, more than ten hours have actually passed, and we have spent about five or six hours on the way here, and we have been trapped here for five or six hours.
Victoria is also a little tired, this
Inside, because of the magma pool, in addition to the smell of sulfur, the air contains excessive carbon dioxide and some toxic mist, which is more likely to make people tired, so after hearing my proposal, Victoria agreed.
I saw that she was more tired, so I told her to rest first.
After careful surveying, we chose a place with a back against the wall, a magma pool on both sides, and only a road on the opposite side, which was relatively safer.
If there is a monster or other messy thing, it will not be attacked from all sides.
On the road after all, I put a horse lantern five meters away from our resting point, and another horse lantern two meters away.
Then he and Victoria hid in a relatively dimly lit place.
Victoria didn't go to sleep right away, the two of us sat against the wall and began to eat, and as we ate, we chatted with each other.
I mainly asked her where she had gone since she left.
Victoria said they had gone home, and they had bought a small island in the hands of the U.S. government and had made their home there.
"Did you have any missions later?" I asked Victoria.
Victoria shook her head and said, "No! The team originally had six people, but now there are only four people left, which is no longer enough to go on a mission, and over the years, we have earned enough money to live until we are old! β
"Why don't you recruit some new players?" I asked again.
Victoria didn't answer, just shook her head, seemingly reluctant to answer.
I know it's because of Alice's affair, which hit them too hard, after all, this was a conspiracy from the beginning, and they were the object of betrayal and play from the beginning, and no one could let go.
As Alice's fiancΓ©, I need to say sorry for Alice.
I said solemnly, "I'm sorry! β
Victoria shook her head: "You don't have to say I'm sorry, in fact, I have already found out about Alice's problem, but I just think she has no reason to betray us, so I don't care, there will be the result now, we can only blame ourselves!" β
I didn't answer, and after a while, Victoria said, "Actually, it's okay, except for the team doctor Yu Min, we all survived." And if the team doctor Yu Min hadn't been so persistent, he might not have died in the end! β
Victoria's words, although she regretted their team doctor Yu Min, did not pity Alice, especially her sentence "We all survived" obviously did not include Alice, which shows that the other party is not relieved of Alice's betrayal.
In fact, there is no way to let go, that is, Alice died in the end, if she didn't die, Victoria would probably have to get to know Alice.
This is the tradition among mercenaries, to treat traitors, either you live or die, it is impossible to live in peace anyway.
"Then why don't you find a man to marry? Isn't it good to live an ordinary life? Why are you involved in this? "I'm still a little puzzled, as a traditional man in the East, I still think that a woman's ultimate destination is to get married and have children.
And there is nothing wrong with getting married and having children, you can live the life of an ordinary person, maybe it will be boring, it may be dull, but it is much better than having nothing in the end and being lonely and old age.
Victoria smiled wryly
Voice: "You should be able to see that we don't have the opportunity to be mothers, although in the eyes of foreigners, not being able to have children is nothing, and it's okay not to have children."
But for us women, this is a cripple of life after all.
And the reason why we, the women, want to form a mercenary team, compete with a group of men, and wander on the brink of life and death and war, is not that we refuse to admit defeat and prove that women are stronger than men, but that we have all suffered irreparable damage.
Don't look at Luna all day long, I advise you not to have bad thoughts about her.
She's a paranoid, and if you have bad thoughts about her and provoke other women, she's likely to go berserk.
The reason why she ended up joining us was because her fiancΓ© was stabbing her to death with a knife behind her back, and that woman was even worse, she turned it into sushi piece by pieceγγγγγγ β
"I'm, is Luna so scary?" The first time I heard Luna's true story, I was scared to the crotch of my pants.
Luckily, I didn't think much of Luna the whole time.
"Including me, Serena and Phoebe, we have all suffered unimaginable pain from you, and we have lost faith in men, and this is why we have come together.
Although we thought about quitting from now on and not getting involved in these things anymore, the previous ten years of mercenary career have long made us accustomed to it, wandering on the edge of life and death.
In the past year or so, most of the time has been tormenting, except for the beginning of recovering the body and licking the wounds.
So when we received Alice's delayed email, we were all a little excited and felt like we could go back to our old lives.
But when I really walk into my previous life again, I actually feel quite tired, maybe it's really what you said, I'm old. Victoria said with a look of emotion.
I quickly denied: "Not old! Not old! In the past, she may have been a woman in her thirties, but now she is in her thirties, and she is still a fairy! β
Although my emotional intelligence is not high, I have experience for so many years, when a woman says that she is old, ugly, and fat, she must not echo it, and she must deny the other party's statement at a point, and praise the other party for being beautiful and young and in good shape.
"Hehe~" Victoria responded to my sycophant with only two words, and it seems that this trick obviously didn't work for her.
"By the way, we are now no longer taking on tasks, and there is no source of income, although our money is enough for us to retire, but the premise is that we can't spend it indiscriminately, this time for your business, we can spend a lot of money, equipment money, you have to reimburse us." Victoria said suddenly.
"Damn, I didn't hear, I don't know, I don't have any money!" As a dick who has just become rich, I still take money very seriously: "Go back and let John give it, just say it's funding, and if you don't give it, you won't give it to them!" β
After a little chat, and eating almost everything, Victoria was finally ready for bed.
She used her backpack as a pillow and adjusted it several times until she found a comfortable position, and then slowly closed her eyes.
And I continued to eat beef jerky, air-dried beef is very chewy, if you don't use saliva to soften the beef, just gnaw it, and you can't eat the meat if your teeth are gnawed off.
The reason why I kept eating was not because of how hungry I was, but because I was also sleepy and relied on eating.