Act 1: Broken Heart Chapter 31: Righteous Thief Greiva
I followed Greva to her residence. It was a small house of about ten square meters. Outside the house was a small yard of about ten square meters. The interior of the room was very simple, with a bed, a table, and a chair.
, a bedside table is everything in the house.
There is a valve in another corner of the house. Open the valve, and there is a fresh-locking refrigerator underneath. The food is placed inside to ensure that it does not spoil.
In the courtyard outside the house, there is a simple stove more than three meters high and two meters wide, which is used for making bacon. Ressa leaned on the chair, looked at the busy Greva, and asked casually:
"You brought me to your home like this, aren't you afraid that I'm a bad person?"
"If you were a bad person, wouldn't it be better to strike when you were outside than now?" Greva ignored Resa and just put the pieces of processed animal meat into the stove. She held a handful of small hairs in her hand.
Brush, I am constantly checking what is brushed on the piece of meat.
"Uh..." Resa touched his nose, as if his analysis made sense. There was no topic, and the two fell silent again for a while.
Watching Greva concentrating on simmering the meat with various seasonings, Resa didn't know what to do. Out of boredom, he took out the purple crystal card and read the text message on it. I don't know how much time passed.
The unique aroma of bacon reached his nose, making his nose twitch.
"Try it!" Greva brought out a bowl of cooked bacon from the house and placed it in front of Resa.
A strong aroma of meat spread in the small courtyard, with a faint aroma of bacon. Even though Resa thought he was not a meat eater, he couldn't help but swallowed a mouthful of saliva and looked at it.
Greva's smile made Ressa put down the vigilance in her heart and took the bowl from Greva's hand: "Thank you for the hospitality!"
The bowl is just the most ordinary stone bowl. The surface should have been baked at high temperature to form a glaze-like coating. There are several simple pattern lines carved on the outside of the bowl, making this ordinary stone bowl look very special.
It is simple and simple. The bright red meat in the bowl is alternately fat and thin, exuding an alluring smell. It is dotted with a few bits of green. The aroma of the meat is mixed with a peculiar fragrance, which makes people even more excited.
When the meat enters the mouth, it is different from the slightly hard texture of bacon as expected. The soft and rotten meat melts in the mouth. The rich aroma of meat fills the entire mouth, making people want to stop. Not long after, Resa eats a bowl of bacon.
He was completely naked, but looking at him, he still had some unfinished thoughts.
Sensing Resa's eager eyes, Greva pursed his lips and said, "You have already eaten a lot at noon. Roasted animal meat is not conducive to digestion. If you like it, I will cook it for you in the evening."
There was a look of disappointment on Resa's face: "Okay then! But I really didn't expect that your cooking skills are so good."
"When I was young, my parents would go out to work, so I would cook for them. As time went by, I learned how to cook." Greva replied, but there was a flash of sadness in her eyes, which she would never see again.
His parents were gone, and even their remains could not be found.
Ressa saw a trace of sadness flashing in Greva's eyes, but he also guessed something and changed the subject: "Are you an explorer?"
"I'm not really an explorer." Greva laughed at himself: "I'm just a person struggling to survive."
"..." Resa was noncommittal. He could tell that Gleiwa was not wearing simple clothes, but a combat uniform. It was just not a particularly good one, and it should only have a few hundred exploration points.
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As for the three energy bars that Greva handed over earlier, although Resa didn’t have any
Next, it was confirmed that Greva came from the node, because the energy bar she took out was the model currently used in the node.
The main reason why Reza didn't accept Gleiwa's energy bars was because she saw how much Gleiwa treasured these three energy bars. She guessed that she was not rich in supplies.
Three energy bars may be insignificant to me, but they may be a life-saving straw to her.
"You can usually eat and drink. Can't you just ask them to change the water?" Seeing that Greva was unwilling to elaborate, Resa changed the subject.
"If you don't want to exchange it with them, you can find water in the wild. However, you can't be sure whether there are any mutated germs in the water in the wild. If there is, then the biggest possibility is that you will turn into a mutated creature after drinking it.
That would basically be equivalent to death."
"Then it means that the city lord's power controls the lifeblood of everyone in this underground city!" Resa raised his eyebrows and looked at the large military camp far away on the street with some interest.
"You can put it this way! In addition to the 50 ml of water supply per person per day, other additional water has to be exchanged for a price that makes them excited." A trace of anger flashed in Greva's eyes: "They do this,
It’s nothing more than letting the people in the entire dungeon go out and work hard, and then letting them use the materials they exchanged for their lives to feed themselves and others, this group of cowards.”
"Why do you say that?" Resa raised the corners of her mouth slightly. It seems that this girl named Greva has seen through many things.
"Although I have only been here a few days, but according to my observation, their soldiers only show off their power when dealing with humans. The day before yesterday, a man ate unclean things outside and became a mutant.
, hundreds of them didn’t dare to come forward, and in the end..." Greva paused suddenly: "In short, these are a group of guys who are worthless but useless."
Reza looked at the serious Gleiwa with some humor. He could tell that this girl should be younger than him, but her words and behavior were completely out of place for her age. She seemed to have a story.
people.
"So you got so much animal meat, are you planning to change more water?" Resa suddenly realized, and sure enough, where there are humans, there are intrigues.
Greva hesitated for a moment, and finally shook his head: "I don't need to change the water. As for these animal meats, I just want more people to live. If you have never experienced it, you will never understand the weight of living."
,How heavy."
"..." Resa was speechless. At this moment, his mind suddenly recalled the smile his father left when he hugged his mother when he went out five years ago, and the words, 'Take care of your sister and survive.'
At this moment, Resa suddenly felt some pain in her chest. She felt distressed for the girl in front of her, and also felt the heavy pain of understanding the weight of living.
What kind of despair must be experienced before such a young girl can realize the weight of living. At this moment, Resa suddenly felt that she understood the girl in front of her. Yes, when did it start?
I have become numb due to exploration. How many people can survive with animal meat that is useless in my eyes?
Three energy bars are not worth much exploration value, but how many people are worth enough to survive? I am also struggling to survive in this apocalypse, but who have the right to underestimate these resources that can save countless ordinary people?
Woolen cloth?
"Well! It's getting late, just wait for me at home! I'll get some water." After that, before Resa could recover, Greva disappeared with light steps.
In the courtyard.
"..." Resa looked at the girl who disappeared on the corner of the street. He discovered that it was a very lucky thing to be able to see the glory of human nature in such an apocalyptic world. Human beings are extremely affectionate animals.
Maybe in such an environment, it would be a good thing to be able to see the brilliance of human nature that has been hidden by the world again!
"Silly girl, do you think I can't guess it if you don't tell me? Since it's not an exchange, then there is only..." Resa took a deep breath, and the change in his thoughts made him suddenly want to help this group of people.
A simple girl.
Silently he opened his breast pocket and took out four red and two blue bottles. Through the sky of the dungeon, you could vaguely see the neat squares in the bottles, which were highly concentrated food and solid water. Open them.
I opened the drawer of the bedside table, and there was just a notebook lying quietly inside. I guess it must be Gleiva's diary, right?
Resa suppressed the urge to open it, and placed the four bottles along the corners of the drawer. Then he took out the ten energy bars from the storage compartment of the personal terminal, placed them next to the solid water bottle, and quietly
After standing for a moment, Resa took off a short sword with a scabbard from his leg. This was a high-energy beam knife that could basically cut through most metals before the end of the world.
"The exploration points are of no use here. This is all I can help you with at the moment." Resa closed the drawer silently, without waiting for Greva to come back. After closing the door, she walked out of the city along the way she came in earlier.
………
Reza did not choose to return directly to the Jump Fortress. Even though 80% of the supplies he came out this time were left with Greva, this did not affect him from exploring nearby. Anyway, this time there was already a second-level earth beast crystal core.
The bottom line is, you won’t lose anything, so why not try your luck again.
"I don't know what that girl's reaction was when she saw those things." Resa scratched her head, turned her attention back to her eyes, and muttered: "I really want to eat that bacon again, and the delicacies in the node."
A completely different kind of enjoyment. Tsk tsk, I regret leaving so early."
Resa did not expect that precisely because of these things he left behind, he would get a wilderness sanctuary of his own in the near future. Of course, this is a story for another day.
On the other side, at the door of Greva's house, Greva's figure was revealed. In her hand, she was carrying a package. Inside the package were 8 bottles of 500 ml water. Greva's little face showed satisfaction.
Smile, today's harvest was very good. When she activated the invisibility function of the phase armor and headed to the camp, a fight broke out not far from the entrance of the camp. The guards dispersed the team exchanging water, but allowed her to move forward.
It was much more convenient, but compared to the joy of getting a lot of water, the energy supply problem of the phase armor was her biggest problem.
She has no superpowers in her body. If she wants to make the phase armor invisible, she can only consume the energy of the energy rod. Even though Greva is a relatively cheap armor, each energy rod is only enough to activate the invisibility three times.
Leiva sighed. She only had 3 energy bars in her hand. This was because Resa didn't ask for her energy bars. If Resa accepted her energy bars, her armor would basically be used as a decoration.
"Huh? Why is the door locked?" Greva looked at the closed door, but he was a little confused. Brother Resa should be inside, right? How could the door be locked? Could it be? He followed him on purpose, and then took advantage of his absence to
Give the supplies that he had worked so hard to accumulate...? Thinking of this, Greva could no longer be happy. He quickly authenticated the door lock identification and rushed towards the house with the bag in hand.
Chapter completed!