Hidden in the carriage was a woman who was as angry as a gossamer.

The woman's eyes were closed and she should be in a coma, breathing heavily, like a worn-out bellows. Her physical problems were quite severe, her exposed skin was covered in abscesses, and the dark red muscles inside the abscess twitched and throbbed strangely, giving off a disgusting stench of decay. The skin covered by the clothes should be in a similar condition, the sticky pus oozing out of the abscess has soaked the clothes, the clothes are sticky to the body, and when they are pulled, the adhesion even pulls out disgusting sticky threads.

Even those skin that is not covered by abscesses and is still intact cannot be said to be normal at all, and the skin is covered with bumpy bumps, which rise and fall from time to time, as if something is swimming, and even the forehead of the face is raised from time to time.

Pop, just under everyone's gaze, a raised pimple on the neck suddenly burst open, and a large mass of fleshy thorns bubbling with sticky pus burrowed out of the skin from inside, and the flesh thorns quickly festered and turned into abscesses seen in other locations, leaving only bloody mucus, dripping down.

"Vomit", the scene was too exciting, with the help of the smell, a few townspeople with poor psychological quality around couldn't help it, and ran to the side to retch, even if it was a senior person like Monica, his face was quite ugly, but he just endured it without gaffes. As for the Báb...... He looked as usual, completely unaffected by the disgusting smell, but he couldn't see the rise and fall of his chest, well, I hope he can hold his breath longer.

"In the process of retreating, our companion didn't know whether she was attacked or accumulated too much pollution, and suddenly the pollution symptoms broke out, so we had to take her and escape quickly, otherwise let her stay on the edge, and the symptoms are estimated to worsen faster." The fat leader sighed, hung his head and said, "It's my bad, I'm worried that you will see us with a polluted person, and misunderstand that she may be contagious, so you will resist us, well, some of the towns we have visited before do have such a situation, so we want to get by." ”

"I'll just hide in the town for a few days, and then leave when it's calm outside, and see if I can try my luck and find the entrance to a big city, and maybe I can get her back." The fat leader finally smiled self-deprecatingly, shook his head and said, "Actually, if I had known that some of you here had been marginal travelers, I wouldn't have to hide it, everyone is a veteran of going in and out of the edge, and you must know that this kind of pollution is not directly contagious, and there will be no misunderstanding." ”

"Victor, Victor." Monica groaned for a while, suddenly raised her voice, and sure enough, just after two shouts, the skinny Victor came out of the crowd with a large suitcase. Monica gestured to the cart, "You go and see how she goes." ”

"Boss, you cheat me, this kind of drudgery reminds me, why don't you think about me when you pick up the dagger in the morning, you don't look good and lose your temper, you ...... Okay, okay, I'll look at it, I'll look at it. ”

"You, don't laugh." Victor honestly went to check on the wounded, but Monica took Baba aside and glared at him before asking, "What this man said is reasonable, if he is honest, then there really will be no problem with the caravan, do you think?" ”

"Huh? I don't think I'll leave until tomorrow. "Ask the observer now if this overtime pay is ......."

"You give me those two daggers back." Monica gritted her teeth.

"Hehe, don't pay it back." With a flick of his wrist, the dagger slipped out of the cuff and landed in his palm, but immediately burrowed back into the cuff like a living thing, "He should be telling the truth." I've been observing his companions as he explains. No matter how perfect and strict the arrangement is, there will inevitably be loopholes, for example, he, as the focus of the stage, he may be able to perform perfectly, but outside the lighting or even outside the stage, it is difficult for those who are not on the stage to cooperate with his performance at all times, if he is lying, these people who are not on stage will inevitably show flaws. That's where the loophole lies. And if you want to be the best thief, you must have a pair of eyes that can see through all loopholes......"

"Huh? What's wrong? Monica was listening with relish, and Babu suddenly fell silent, and couldn't help but look over and find that Babu was looking very puzzled, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Ah, nothing, nothing." Babu didn't know why he suddenly came up with such a last sentence, as if he was used to a natural subconscious behavior, but since he had decided to put aside the past and live as a new self, Babu didn't bother with the reason anymore, and after a moment of doubt, he continued, "In short, judging from the details of their behavior, they should be telling the truth, unless all of them have been deceived, but this possibility is too low to consider the value." ”

"Tsk, the illusion energy is highly attached, the spirit is deeply polluted, the soul resistance is less than ten percent, and the erosion immunity is ......" Babu and Monica were discussing in a low voice when they heard the sound of Victor squandering saliva, "Hey, dude, how long has this person been polluted?" ”

"More than five hours." The fat leader took out something and looked at it, "It's not even six hours." ”

"More than five hours? You said that she held a high concentration of pollution for five days, I believe it, hell, it was only five hours, how much pollution energy had accumulated in her body. Boss, it's indeed polluted, but this situation is too exaggerated, I definitely can't solve it, other cities, I don't know, I haven't been there, maybe someone can handle it, you can try your luck, as long as you can find the way...... Don't push, don't push. ”

Blasting the source of spiritual pollution aside, Monica nodded at the mayor. The mayor of the town was obviously relieved, and with a smile on his face, he said nonsense about welcoming visitors to rest for as long as they wanted, and then glanced at the captain of the security team on the side, who came forward to bring the caravan into the town to entertain them, and when the time came, he would draw a temporary area in the center of the town for them to display their goods.

"My dear Monica." The mayor's hug fell through again, and he could only smile dryly and keep his distance from Monica, "How's it going, are you sure they're okay?" ”

"For now. And they were brought in, and if they were driven away now, it would be tantamount to letting them die, and maybe it would turn them hostile. Monica stared at the back of the caravan leaving, thought for a while, and suddenly showed a strange smile, "It's okay, Mayor Town, you don't have to worry, it's not necessarily a good thing for them to come, the plan is slightly adjusted, even if they really have bad intentions, as long as we don't leave them a chance." Victor, you go on another run, gather everyone else to HQ, and meet in an hour. Remember to keep it strictly confidential and not let outsiders know. ”

Seeing the mayor and Victor leave one after another, the composure on Monica's face slowly disappeared, and she didn't know what she was thinking about as she looked in the direction the caravan entered.

"Now gather the men, it looks like you're planning to leave tonight?" Babu stayed behind Monica until the people around her gradually dispersed, and then said softly, "What, are you still worried that there will be anything wrong with this caravan?" ”

"Yes, the problem will be solved tonight, the first day they come tonight, there will definitely be a welcome banquet in the town, these people are the protagonists of the banquet, the focus of everyone's attention. Even if they have any bad intentions, they can't do it today if they are stared at by everyone. After today, when they have a chance to do something, we have already returned, and we will never leave them room to move. Monica hesitated for a moment, turned her head and glanced at Babu, but continued, "There is a more important point, they have been entangled with the node in the edge for at least five hours, although they still escaped in the end, but they will definitely create some results, let's take this opportunity to go in, it is the best time to mend the knife, which means that they inadvertently used us as cannon fodder, and it can be regarded as the price of their escape to save their lives." ”

"It's a good result, it's a win-win, isn't it good, why don't you seem to be very satisfied?"

"Actually, I just figured out one thing out of the blue." Monica smiled bitterly, "When I was happy that someone helped us make cannon fodder to clean up the enemy for us, I suddenly thought, ten years ago, was there someone standing in this position, happy to have cannon fodder to pave the way?" Oh, there should be, it's just that we were the cannon fodder at that time. ”

Babu smiled and patted her on the shoulder: "The price of living." ”

"Yes, the price of living, dead child." I don't know who she's calling, but when she lowered her head and raised it again, her mental state had returned to normal, "The plan has been temporarily adjusted, and the timing is okay on your side." ”

"Not in terms of time, but there is one thing I don't understand very well, and I want to confirm it first."

"Huh?"

"You said that to drive them away is to let them die? They also said that they would leave when we solved the problems outside? I always find it weird, as if they're stuck here, and even if there are nodes on the edge, isn't it just the end of them not going to the edge and choosing to leave in the other direction? ”

"Wait, I don't understand what you mean." Unexpectedly, Monica was even more confused than Babu, just like Babu asked something outside of normal people's common sense, "You said that if you don't go through the edge, then how can you leave?" ”

"Huh? Go in the other direction. Babu casually pointed in the opposite direction, "Keep walking, you can always go to other towns." ”

"No matter which direction you go, you can't go all the way and you're on the edge, you didn't even know about this kind of thing before, right?" Monica suddenly slapped her forehead and said suddenly, "But it's no wonder, if you hadn't paid attention to marginal knowledge before, you wouldn't know this common sense." Well, you're right, if you want to leave this world, you have to go through the edge. ”

"The ...... of this world" Babu suddenly understood that perhaps there was a subtle difference between this world and what he knew the world should be, and some names that sounded common were not necessarily exactly the same, so he tentatively asked, "How many are there in this world?" ”

"Who knows, thousands? Tens? Maybe an infinite number of them. Although Monica didn't understand, she still replied patiently, "This kind of thing can't be counted, and there can't be an answer." ”

"I see." Babu sighed as he pressed his forehead, "So the last question, is an incarnation a small town?" ”

"Not necessarily, maybe it's a small town, maybe it's a big town, maybe it's a city." Monica gestured with an extended range, "It is said that there are very few giant cities that can accommodate a population of hundreds of thousands in the living world, but unfortunately, no one in my contact has ever seen it." ”

"It's good, the world is really ...... It's so interesting. ”