Chapter 30: Beginning with a Single Step
"Ethan, aren't you with Athra and them? How ......" Caroline, who had just finished a day's work, heard movement in the training ground next to her, so she came over to see who was still training at the training ground so late.
Ethan was sweating profusely at the moment, naked and topless, tearing open a piece of dog skin plaster and applying it to the wound.
Hearing someone calling him, Ethan turned his head to look at the door, saw that it was Caroline, and smiled in response, "I want to try the effects of the new skill." ”
The sound was not loud, but it could be heard clearly in Caroline's ears in the quiet training ground.
After this time with everyone, Ethan no longer looks like he was rejecting people from thousands of miles away when he first came to the shelter.
"Ethan, thank you for remembering our commitment." Caroline walked up to Ethan and said softly.
Caroline already knew what had happened, and she was very grateful for Ethan's way of hiding her true strength in the competition.
Cook is experienced and experienced, and once Ethan shows something in battle, he will definitely be noticed by the other side, and then his important information will be mastered by the other side. Although they have little contact with Vault 337, the hostile forces have a large intelligence network, and if this information leaks out, it is very likely that those people will find out about it, causing disaster to their small Vault.
"Little things." Ethan stood up and smiled at Caroline, looking in a good mood.
"Uh......" Caroline had something to say, but was a little distracted by Ethan's bright smile, and forgot what to say next for a while.
Feeling that the qi and blood in his body had recovered again, Ethan was ready to continue training, so he asked Caroline, "Is there anything else you want to say?" ”
"Oh, it's okay, can you keep training? I won't bother you. ”
"Don't bother, you can watch from the side if you have time, it's okay." Ethan tightened his training shirt, and under the light black training suit were pieces of tight muscle.
"Huh? May I? Well...... I suddenly remembered that there was something to deal with, hehe......" Caroline looked surprised at first, then blushed, and hurriedly left the training ground with a casual excuse.
As soon as she walked out of the gate of the training ground, Caroline covered her hot face with shame all the way.
"What a nymphomaniac! Caroline, you're so ashamed! ”
"Be reserved, be reserved, Ethan is a system warrior, and like Kevin and Carl, he is a good boy for me. I can't think anything wrong of them. Caroline said secretly.
He patted his face, took a deep breath, and forcibly calmed himself down.
"Director, what's wrong with you?" Jeff had just appeared from the elevator door, and when he saw Caroline alone there, he was muttering and slapping his face, and asked with some confusion.
"It's okay, Athera, are they still at the bar?"
"Well, it's still crazy there." Jeff replied with a smile.
"Then I'll go see them too." Caroline wanted to meet them and strengthen their relationship with each other, especially the people of the newly formed Fifth Combat Group.
After the two parted, Jeff walked into the training ground, and there was a shouting in his ears, and Ethan was the only one training in the training ground. Thinking of Caroline's strange appearance just now, and Caroline's completely different attitude towards Ethan when facing Ethan some time ago, Jeff couldn't help but gossip in his heart.
Don't...... Does the director have a crush on Ethan?
Jeff couldn't help but look at Ethan twice, from a male point of view, Ethan has good facial features and is tall, and he is indeed a good talent.
Jeff shook his head, trying to get the strange thoughts out of his head.
It wasn't long before Ethan fell again. The monsters that came out this time were three small smart machines, and only one of them carried a firearm. However, the weight, speed, attack power, and even tactical coordination of the intelligent machine are stronger than those of the mutant bugs, so even if there is only one firearm, Ethan feels a headache. This time he performed even worse, and was even knocked out in the skill time of the quicksand technique.
"Brother Isan, Sister Arthur said I will call you back." Jeff said with a bitter face.
"Looks like that guy drank a lot, so you told her I'd go back to the house to rest." Ethan said with a smile as he used the recovery power-up.
"Well, I don't want to go back either, I really don't know what's good about wine, and it's a waste of food."
Jeff was born in the wilderness, and his tribe is still a good tribe, but even then there are often times when there is famine and lack of food, and he knows that hunger is more terrible than the flood beast. When he learns that making a glass of wine like that would cost a lot of life-saving food, Jeff naturally doesn't like the choking liquid.
Jeff went to the shooting range to pick up a realistic firearm for training and practiced marksmanship. Ethan, on the other hand, is a hard-mode encounter that has been repeatedly attempted, and after more than an hour and more than a dozen challenges, Ethan's body can almost reach the limit of the pain, even if he has recovered all his health, but he can still feel the pain of his heart when he raises his arm slightly.
In addition, after using the quicksand technique 10 times, that is, after using up all the mana 10 times, the sense of mental deprivation that he can withstand is also close to the limit, and even if he uses the skill again, there is a possibility of fainting.
Jeff, who was practicing his marksmanship, kept an eye on the place, always on the lookout for Ethan to pass out. Seeing Ethan walk out of the training table, Jeff also put down his firearm and trotted over.
"Jeff, you're not practicing?" Ethan asked.
"Well, my arm is too sore." Jeff waved his arm in a pretentious manner and said.
The two of them returned to their respective bedrooms, and they could still hear the noise of everyone as they passed by the entertainment area, and even outside they could feel the warm atmosphere inside.
It's not that Ethan doesn't like the atmosphere, it's not that he hates entertainment, but that there are more important things to do than entertainment at the moment. Time is not pressing, but it will never be achieved if you don't do one thing.
After a brief rinse in the bathroom, Ethan lay down on the bed, ready to rest.
Just thinking back to what happened on the streets of Juricno, Ethan felt a tightness in his chest.
I'm going to get stronger! With such an obsession, Ethan tossed and turned, unable to sleep, and longed to get up immediately and practice for a few more hours.
Diagonally opposite Ethan's dormitory, in staff dormitory 101, Caroline changed into clean pajamas, shook Edith who was reading a book with an unknown face, and let out strange cries from time to time: "What a shame! ”
Nearby, in the No. 1 bar of the entertainment district bar, more than a dozen people sang cheerful songs to the effect that they celebrated the harvest and celebrated the victory. As the leader, Athera stepped on the table with one foot, shook the wine bottle in his hand, and sang the most outrageous song in the audience.
The song wafted out, quickly disappearing into the air of the Vault. On the surface, the night was silent and cold, and the occasional howl or two of the beasts did not break the silence of the night, but was absorbed by the silence itself, and became an accomplice to the terror of tranquility.
In the faint glow of a semicircular crescent, a large wolf followed the residual scent in the air and made its way to the Vault's Transit Station 3, where it sniffed down at the piece of meat that Ethan had discarded on the ground.
The she-wolf recognized that this was the piece of meat it gave to that human today. This is here, and there is a human living underneath it, but intuition tells it that the human is not here.
It picked up the piece of meat, but instead of eating it, it planned to take it with him, hoping that he would recognize the piece of meat when he encountered the human again.
"Snorr~" The she-wolf grunted, and rushed away in the direction she was coming and going.