Chapter III: Justification
"Hey, you can't eat this."
Babu was quick to pick up little Anna, who was about to start the meal, and let her bite into the air, her teeth still clashing regretfully, making a clicking sound.
Anna used her hands and feet together, waving her limbs at the mutated mage with her teeth and claws, or waving seventy, eighty or ninety limbs, and found that she could not get close to the target but was reported farther and farther, and the little guy stopped, turned his head to Babu, and bit his wrist with an aggrieved face, and his greedy saliva flowed out.
The mutant mage behaved very strangely, except for a scream when she was almost bitten, she kept staring blankly at the little thing that was about to bite her, as if she had been stunned by Anna, who suddenly had a few more small tentacles on her body, but neither Babu nor Monica noticed her abnormality, because Anna was still messing around.
Finger finger finger.
Little Anna also looked a little strange this time, as if she was very persistent, persevering in pointing at the mutated mage, biting Babu's wrist with her mouth and not forgetting to say something, and continued to show her teeth and claws full of anticipation.
"Don't make a fuss, be obedient."
"Eat, delicious."
"This, really, can't be eaten." Babu rubbed the little thing's hair with a smile and continued to write hurriedly, "Next, in this world, buy meat to eat, and give it to you." ”
"Delicious." Xiao Anna still pointed to the mutant mage, and she didn't know which hand replied, "It's not eating, it's eating." ”
"That's not ......" After so many years, the little guy has never been so persistent in making a fuss, which made Babu feel a little helpless and had a headache, and was just about to continue refusing, he was suddenly stunned, seemed to understand something, and thoughtfully wrote to Anna, "It's not eating, it's eating?" ”
"Eun." Little Anna nodded happily, rubbed her forehead in Babu's arms a few times, and wrote with a smile, "It's food, it's delicious, it's not food." ”
There was no logic at all in the few words, but Babu slowly let go of his hand. Monica opened her mouth in surprise when she saw this, but in the end she didn't say anything, just watching as Babu let go and let Anna stumble towards the mutated mage.
The mutant mage didn't even have any objections, staring directly at little Anna, watching the little monster wave its tentacles and pounce on her, and then open its big mouth.
Suck.
In a way that is difficult for normal humans to understand, Anna swallowed the upper half of the mutant mage's body in one gulp with her small mouth, like a human snorting bones.
The upper body of the mutant mage who was spit out had become slimy and wet, similar to every time Babu was spit out by Roshan, but what was surprising was that the exaggerated pollution energy on her original body had been diluted a lot, although the festering skin was still bleeding yellow-green pus, but those hideous sarcomas had shrunk a lot, and even the tentacles that had grown out had dried up and fallen off.
The changes in her body are visible to the naked eye, and the same is true for the changes in energy, the blood-colored mist that once crawled all over her body should hardly be seen, although there are still new blood mist generated from her body, but it has long been thinned out of the climate, with her current pollution status, it is completely impossible to see that she has just been forcibly terminated from the mutation process, even if it is not suppressed by that bottle of purification potion, it may not continue to deteriorate.
Anna was satisfied, licking her lips and exhaling a mouthful of turbid air tainted with red mist, then opened her mouth wider and swallowed the mutant mage whole. By the time she spit it out again, the red mist that had just come out of her body had been cleaner again, and the sarcoma had burst open, revealing the bright red wounds inside.
The red mist representing the polluted energy was still persistently emerging from the mutated mage's body, but compared to the endless appearance of the pollution before, the speed was obviously much slower now. Anna approached her for the third time, sniffed her again, and then retreated with a look of disgust, and burrowed back into Babu's arms, smacking and smacking, ignoring the mutated mage again.
Everyone who witnessed it all was stunned, including even the one who witnessed it, the mutated mage.
The mage is still in a very bad state, and it is nothing that she has a broken arm, the key is that her body is now full of pits, full of sarcomas and wounds left by acne and rupture, and she can't even see her original face, but at least it is much stronger than the previous appearance of mutating into a monster. It must have been quite painful to be covered in injuries like this, but she didn't pay attention to her injuries at all, but stared at Anna who was hiding in Babu's arms, and stammered: "She, she's ......"
Her voice was fainter and hoarser than it had been a few minutes before, and it was clear that the inside of her throat had been scarred from the clean-up process, and it would take a lot of effort for Babu and Monica to hear what she was saying. Both sighed at the sight of her reaction, and as Babu was considering what reason to find an explanation, she was heard to continue.
"She's ...... Illusory Master? ”
"Huh?" Babu felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end, and both he and Monica set their eyes on the weakened mage.
"You guys, don't you know? Or, as I said, isn't it right? ”
"Nope." When Babu saw Monica nodding at him, he shook his head and said, "We don't know what a World Master is. ”
"I'm also, not really, clearly, a, illusory, existent, very mysterious, terrifying, extremely dangerous, at least, equivalent to, destructive, natural disaster."
The mage struggled to speak, but insisted on explaining to the two of them, and Babu frowned and rubbed Anna's head, pinched her face, and finally sighed at the small tooth marks on his fingers.
"Oh, the master of the illusory world, it's too mysterious, I understand, not much, maybe, it's me who is wrong." The mage lay down weakly, his expression was very painful during the whole process, and blood began to ooze from many parts of his body.
"It doesn't matter right or wrong now, it's ......" Monica helped her to lie down in the carriage and patted her without the wound as if comfortingly, "A miracle has happened, hasn't it?" So, are you still going to give up hope? ”
"She, indeed, can, save me, but, it takes, a lot of time." The mage endured the pain of each opening and struggled to say, "You, really plan to save me? I, just, strangers, you, dare, believe? ”
"Your previous performance makes it hard for us to doubt you." With that, Babu sighed, and with Monica's playful eyes, she exited the caravan with Anna in her arms, and returned to the cockpit, leaving space in the caravan for the two women.
Monica then lifted the mage's clothes, and said while cleaning her wounds: "Since you have chosen to help, then we will help to the end, you are still in a bad state, don't be in a hurry to speak, let's rest first." Just remember to owe us a story, and if there's anything, let's talk about it when you're a little better. ”
"Thank you." The mage smiled weakly and said in a low voice, "My name is Judy, the illusion mage Judy, I ......"
"Shh
Before Judy could finish speaking, Babu came in from the cockpit and interrupted her, and Monica casually covered Judy's body and glared at Babu before pointing out of the carriage. Babu nodded, making another silent gesture, Monica gave a thumbs up, then gently pressed Judy's mouth, and the three of them fell silent at the same time, and one of them was outside, hiding around the caravan in the fog, quietly listening to the movements around them.
Soon, the sound of stumbling footsteps sounded from under the shoulder of the road not far away, not one, but a large one, as if a group of people were speeding down the slope in the direction of the road.
Carefully distinguished, this is a team of at least ten people, their angle obviously can not detect the silent caravan, just unnoticed, just unnoticed, the sound of conversation clearly into the caravan.
"Be cautious, be cautious, the target giant should be right ahead."
"Has that group of cannon fodder already exchanged fire with him?"
"Yes, sir, Karl just alerted both the giants and the living corpses to the decoy, and left only after watching them start fighting."
"But there's no movement right now." The 'Chief' shouted dissatisfiedly, "Those wastes have probably been wiped out by the giants, so we can only do it ourselves." A bunch of useless things, you all give me attention, if you dare to be as useless as this group of cannon fodder, you will all die on the edge of me and don't go back, and your family will also send me to a slave camp as a coolie, do you hear? ”
"Yes, sir."
"Also, what's the bell just now?"
"I don't know, sir, maybe the bait brought ...... their own"
The sound of neat running faded down the road, and the target direction was the strange building just now.
The silence in the carriage continued, until there were five knocks outside, and Monica breathed a sigh of relief, letting go of the hand that was covering Judy's mouth, and watched as Babu entered the carriage.
The faces of the three of them were not very good-looking, especially the mage Judy, whose face was even more gloomy as water, but she just looked at her miserable state now that she was not human, gritted her teeth and closed her eyes, and said nothing.
"Whew." Babu was silent for a moment with a straight face, exhaled heavily, and sneered, "I don't like their attitude, I don't like it very much. It's okay to rely on your ability to get into trouble, but it's a dead hand behind your back, hehe......"
"I hate it too, but I have to warn you about one thing." Monica narrowed her eyes in the direction of the voice, as if she wanted to see those people in the caravan, "This kind of thing is not unusual in the edge. ”
"Huh?"
"Marginal travelers, because they know each other's suffering, often choose to help as much as possible when they are in trouble. But these people are not marginal travelers, they are more like scavengers, and what they do depends on their own morality. Monica couldn't help but sneer, "Although it is indeed shameful to harm others and benefit oneself, there will always be such people on the fringes, and there is no need to be angry or even break out into conflict for this." ”
Babu glanced at the two women in surprise, and found that even Judy, who should be the most angry, nodded to him and signaled that Monica was right, and although Monica said this, her face was still angry, and her mood was obviously not as calm as her mouth said.
Looking down and thinking for a while, Babu suddenly understood, and a strange smile appeared on his face: "Then let's put it another way." ”
"Huh?"
"That giant is very strong, maybe he has good equipment on him, and it is likely that there are valuable things hidden in the building where he is entrenched. We fought him first, and those things should also belong to us. Babu's tone turned cold, and the dagger had slipped into his hand at some point, "Now this group of people suddenly appeared, trying to grab something without asking, and I don't know who gave them the courage." This makes me angry, if I don't teach them a lesson, they really think that we Monica and the Babu Chamber of Commerce can be bullied casually? How, is this reason enough? ”
"But ......"
"As for the small number of them, we don't need to worry."
Babu winked at Monica, this confident expression Monica was not the first time she had seen her, which instantly soothed her somewhat worried mood, and her clenched fist relaxed like a face, listening to Babu continue.
"If it were somewhere else, there might be nothing to be done about them, but since they happen to be here......," Babu sneered again, "it doesn't matter how many of them there are." ”
"One more confirmation." Monica asked, "Sure?" ”
Babu didn't answer directly, but walked around to a few scrap cars on the road, opened a lid on the side of the scrap truck and looked inside for a while, before turning back and saying, "Looking at the state of these cars, it should be no problem, even if there is a problem, I have an alternative plan." ”
"Okay, then teach them a lesson." Monica stood up abruptly and said in a low voice, "Let them remember that even if they become mutants in the future, the interests of our Monica and the Babu Chamber of Commerce will never be allowed to be violated at will." ”
"You ......," Judy said as her lips trembled slightly, struggling in a hoarse voice, "you've already saved me once, there's no need to do these things again." ”
"Don't care, it's not for you, it's just that some of your experiences reminded her of a difficult time not long ago. She used to be responsible for fighting against the edge and protecting civilians, so she had some empathy and wanted to find a reason to solve the other party. ”
Babu and Monica looked at each other and smiled, and Monica went on as a matter of course: "Even if you can use civilians as cannon fodder casually, then they must be ready to be treated equally, then we don't have to have any psychological burden, just send them to meet with the cannon fodder in their mouths." You have a good rest in the car and wait for us a while. ”
"Don't worry, it won't be long." Babu waved goodbye to Mage Judy, and the two of them joined hands and disappeared into the red mist at the edge.