After the tide of corpses and beasts dissipated, Kaito returned to the ruins of the gathering area to look for Sim Xue's mother and daughter, but did not find the bodies of the two of them. With the hope that they would survive, he dragged his mutilated body into the oasis in the hope of meeting Si Moxue's mother and daughter again.

When I met Si Moxue again, I received the news that Si Moxue's mother had already died.

Kaito stood in a trance for a moment before accepting the fact that the gentle but strong woman in his memory was no longer there, but unfortunately he didn't have time to tell her what he thought.

He let out a long sigh, pressed his grief into his heart, and said to Sim Xue with a smile:

"That's fine, lest she be frightened when she sees me like this."

Kaito was seriously injured and physically disabled. After entering the oasis, he sells his strength for a living. Sometimes they set up a small stall to sell clothes around the festival to subsidize the family.

Knowing that the three of Si Moxue were on this trip to find suitable rental housing and buy some clothes at the same time, Kaito waved his hand, saying that the clothes on the stall were taken by them, which was regarded as a meeting gift from him to the three girls.

"Thank you, Uncle Kaito, but you still don't need it, it's not easy for you to make money." Si Moxue used her eyes to stop Mia, who was about to take the clothes, and politely refused, "My mother and I have already received too much care from you before." ”

"Tsk, you're polite to my uncle." Kaito put on an impatient expression, but said, "I'm afraid you don't know how much money I've made in the past few years, twist and pinch, take it quickly!" ”

Kaito said everything about this, and it would be hypocritical to excuse himself again, and the three of them thanked each other, and each picked a favorite dress.

Seeing that the three of them had chosen their favorite clothes, Kaito simply put the rest of the clothes together, packed them, and looked like he was about to close the stall and leave.

"That's all for today, I'll take the three of you to see if there is a more suitable house for rent." Kaito also remembered that the girls were looking for rental housing.

Then no matter how Si Moxue refused, Kaito just sorted out the stall, threw the things into his small one-bedroom house, and pulled Si Moxue and the three of them to start asking if there was a rental house nearby: "Let's see if I can find a closer one near my house, and I will take care of it in the future." ”

However, after asking a few in a row, either the rent is too expensive and exceeds the budget, or it is too dilapidated to meet the requirements.

"Rents have risen too much lately, haven't they? Grab the money! ”

finally fell in love with a house, but was persuaded to quit again by the high rent, and Doll scolded angrily.

However, scolding is scolding, which is also a helpless fact. According to Kaito, in the past few years, because of the more frequent attacks of corpse beasts, many people in the human gathering area outside the oasis have to enter the oasis even if they smash pots and sell iron. Because of the curfew policy of the oasis, they want to stay in the oasis and get the protection of the façade of the oasis, and they have to spend a lot of money to rent a house in addition to paying a certain share of the "protection fee".

Originally, most of the houses in the oasis were owned by a few powerful and wealthy families, and ordinary people had to pay rent to them if they wanted a place to live. At this time, the landlords in the oasis smelled a business opportunity, and they raised the rent one after another, and even did not hesitate to evict the original tenants.

This is how Simxue and Tao, who have no power and no power in the outer city, were kicked out by the landlord.

"It's as black as a crow in the world!" Si Moxue sighed.

"Most of the people in the agglomeration area are mixed races with low genetic fusion, and they do not have an advantage in the oasis regardless of their mental and physical strength, and it is difficult to find a job to earn a living. Most of the people hid in the oasis for a while, ran out of money, and had to leave the oasis. ”

Kaito said with regret on his face that as a hybrid who also begged for a living from the gathering area to the oasis, it was difficult for him to understand the difficulties of those mixed people, but he was even more helpless because of it.

Because of gene fusion, although the physical fitness of hybrid people has been greatly improved, there is a certain decline in intelligence, and the lower the degree of gene fusion, the more serious this decline is.

Therefore, most of the hybrids with low genetic fusion in human agglomeration areas can only choose to continue to stay in aggregation areas.

Do you say they're afraid?

Of course, I'm afraid, in front of dozens or even hundreds of corpse beasts, there is almost no gathering area to stop it. Who knows if the next gathering area to fall will be the one they are in? Which will come first, tomorrow or death?

But what can be done? They can only survive in fear and pray at the same time.

For a whole morning, the group was running outside, but they never found a suitable rental.

"Or, if you don't mind, choose to stay at my house for a while." Kaito scratched his head and proposed.

Although there is a big age difference between him and the three girls, after all, there is a difference between men and women. He was sure he wouldn't have bad intentions, but would the girls be reassured? So he wasn't very confident in his proposal.

"Really, that's a big help!" Unexpectedly, Si Moxue accepted it without hesitation, but she still insisted: "But the rent still has to be paid...... Well...... At the previous price. ”

Kaito knew that Sim Moxue's character would never change once he made up his mind, so he also agreed: "Then so be it." ”

Todd hadn't seen Kaito, and when she heard this, she pulled Lamia's sleeve: "Do you think this uncle looks like a good person?" ”

Indeed, Kaito's current appearance looks a little scary.

But Mia stood at Si Moxue without complaint, looking at the girl's slightly thin back, and said in a rare seriousness: "I don't know, but I believe in Xiao Xue'er." ”

After Sim Moxue and Kaito negotiated, Kaito helped them take out the luggage stored in the hotel and transport it to their new home.

Kaito's one-arm is very inconvenient for both moving things and doing housework, and Si Moxue also asked him why he didn't have a prosthetic.

"The cheap ones are uncomfortable, and the expensive ones can't afford them, so one hand is one hand."

Keto replied nonchalantly. Si Moxue looked at Kaito's empty cuffs, the man who had given him fatherly care in her childhood, and secretly determined.

The house that Kaito rented was originally a small one-bedroom apartment, and after Si Moxue and the three came, he gave up the small bedroom and used a curtain to separate a place in the small hall to put his bed, and several people lived like this for the time being.

Si Moxue originally thought that Mia, who had always been picky, would dislike the simple place, but she didn't expect that as soon as the bed in the room was made, she plunged into the quilt and said happily: "I like this room, it feels like home." ”

Because it is close to the annual festival of the oasis, I packed up my room and had a simple lunch. Kaito took the three of them out shopping again.

As the joy of meeting someone in a foreign land fades, Keto tells them about the Oasis he has heard over the years.

The Oasis Outer City and the Inner City have patrol teams, which are served by hybrids recruited from the inner and outer cities, and are the official forces of the Oasis, subordinate to the Silver Hall, and responsible for the local security management. In addition, there are several large families in the outer city, which have a certain status and influence in the city.

The four cities in the center of the oasis - Huanglong City, Xueman City, Black Fall City, and Red Fall Town, also collectively known as the main city, have the Praetorian Guards directly subordinate to the four cities, compared to the patrol team, they are all carefully selected, after standardized training, fully armed, responsible for the security of the main city, and at the same time have the right to command the patrol team of the inner city and the outer city of the oasis.

There is a big difference between cities, and on the one hand, it is difficult for people from the outer city to be eligible to enter the inner city, and it is equally difficult for people from the inner city to have access to the central city.

Anyway, the leaders of the central four cities have a firm grip on the management of the oasis.

Oasis has also conducted relevant research according to the gene fusion degree of hybrid people, and found that when the gene fusion degree is greater than 70%, hybrid people can carry out gene emancipation, and then every 5% as a ladder, and every time the gene fusion degree of hybrid people crosses a ladder, the ability obtained after gene liberation will get a qualitative leap. At the same time, the mental decline caused by genetic fusion with animals is less obvious.

However, when hybrids mature, it is difficult to improve the degree of gene fusion. So far, very few of the registered hybrids have more than 90% of the genetic fusions.

Therefore, in the outer city, which advocates force, a high degree of genetic fusion means a higher social status, and it is difficult for non-hybrids to carve out a world in the outer city.

But to this day, Si Moxue is not sure whether he is a non-hybrid person.