When the last piece of broken concrete slab was pulled away by the two mercenaries, the scene under the concrete slab appeared before everyone's eyes.
The tall mercenary standing in front looked down and patted Hao Ren on the shoulder. He sighed softly and said, "This damn era, isn't it?"
A wretched blonde girl was crushed under the concrete ruins. No one knew how long she had been dead. There was a terrifying penetrating wound on her chest and abdomen. One could almost see through the wound to the ground on the other side. Around the wound, one could see rolled up flesh and blood. Between the flesh and blood, there were things that looked like electrical cables. Upon closer inspection, one could see that these cables and flexible tubes were actually growing together with the flesh. The girl lay on her back under the ruins. Her empty eyes were wide open, as if she was looking at the sky for the last time before her death. Her long hair was stained with blood, and the wet hair stuck to the side of her face, adding to her desolation.
Hao Ren was speechless.
He felt the MDT's navigation signal coming from the body. It was clear and accurate.
"MDT, do you know what you have become?"
"How would I know?" The MDT sounded energetic. "Damn it, all services have been restarted, but I can't connect to the sensor. How did you get in this time? Why is it different from the previous teleportation?"
"I guess it has something to do with the change in your sensory mode. You are now … a corpse," Hao Ren said.
The MDT's exclamation rang in his mind. "What are you talking about?!"
Hao Ren did not know how to explain it. He could only shake his head and sigh. He bent down to carry the body out of the hole. He was not sure if it was a human or a cyborg. While he was busy, he waved to the mercenary next to him. "You, come and help me lift these steel bars …"
"You …" Nolan looked at the scene with a gloomy expression. Her fingers holding the rifle were slightly pale. Then she shook her head expressionlessly. "I know. Ulyanov, Carl, go and help. And … I'm sorry for your loss. "
Hao Ren did not hear the last sentence clearly because he was focused on moving the corpse out carefully without causing any more damage. After they worked together, the body of the blonde girl was finally taken out. Hao Ren took off his shirt and wrapped the terrible wound on her chest and abdomen. He then carried her on his back and smiled at Nolan. "Let's go. I don't know the way."
Hao Ren's face was still stained with blood. His smile was extremely strange — at least in Nolan's eyes. She had seen many hysterical expressions on the battlefield. Humans who had lost their loved ones were either angry, mad, or desperate. But no one looked like this guy in front of her. His face was covered in blood, but he was smiling as calmly as an ordinary person. Nolan felt that there was madness hidden in this smile.
But in fact, Hao Ren really wanted to laugh …
The mercenary wearing a fully enclosed helmet next to him could not help but speak. His name was Ulyanov. "You want to take her away?"
"Yes," Hao Ren nodded matter-of-factly. "It took me a long time to find this guy."
"I understand how you feel, but let's find a place to bury her," Nolan said calmly. "She's dead. Can't you see that?"
Hao Ren was stunned for a moment. Then he realized that there was a big misunderstanding. But he could not explain the situation at all. He could only smile wryly. "Well … I have to take this guy with me for a special reason. And to be honest, he's not dead yet. Believe it or not, I'm talking to him now. "
It would have been better if he did not say it. As soon as he said it, the eyes of the people around him became more complicated. Several mercenaries who were used to seeing death could not help but look away. Everyone had the same thought in their mind: this man must have gone crazy because of the loss of his lover …
Ulyanov's expression was hidden under the helmet, but he patted Hao Ren on the shoulder and said in a low voice, "You have to accept the reality, or you won't last long."
Hao Ren thought for a long time, but he could not come up with a good reason to explain his motives. At last, he could only put on a stern face and said, "No matter what you say, I have to take it with me. Don't worry, I'm responsible for carrying this guy. I won't drag you down."
The mercenaries looked at him with sympathy and sadness. Hao Ren felt his scalp tingling. His brain was already a bowl of dumplings. He could only curse the culprit in his mind. "Damn you! I've suddenly been thrown into the role of the tragic hero, and my partner is you, you f * cking brick! "
The MDT could not see the surroundings, but it knew what was going on through Hao Ren's mental connection. Its voice was still irritating. "Don't take it too hard. Maybe this is not the worst?"
"Then what do you think could be worse!?"
"Maybe you'll be regarded as a necrophile …"
Hao Ren was devastated. He wanted to throw the MDT out, just like how he usually threw the brick. But he was afraid that it would cause more misunderstandings. So he gritted his teeth and swore in his mind, "From now on, you can be mean, but every word you say, I'll make you pay when we get back to the surface world!"
The MDT finally calmed down. But the silence in his mind only made Hao Ren feel better for less than half a second. Because the mercenaries standing around him did not know why this man wanted to carry a dead woman on his back. Logically speaking, there was nothing more than a 200,000-word love tragedy behind it.
Oh, of course, it could also be interpreted as a necrophile …
The unusually tall mercenary, named Carl, looked a little dissatisfied. Apparently, he did not think it was a wise decision to let Hao Ren carry such a burden. But Nolan waved at the soldiers. "Forget it, let him take it."
Carl's brows knit together. "If we encounter rogues or rangers …"
Nolan glanced at Hao Ren, turned and walked away. "The pickup will be here soon. Just don't fight before that. The two newbies who joined yesterday, go check if there's anything worth recycling. The rest of you, follow me. Get ready to go. "
The mercenaries responded in a scattered manner. Two young men ran to the dead soldiers and retrieved a few intact equipment. The equipment showed a user error message. But Ulyanov took it and fiddled with it a few times. "Go back and get the professor to reset it. It's a Natural thing. It's not that difficult."
It seemed that although these weapons had an identification function, it still could not stop outsiders from stealing them. Mercenaries who wandered on the battlefield all day long were good at this.
Hao Ren carried the MDT, who had turned into a girl's body, and followed the mercenaries on their journey through the war-torn city. His main goal now was to figure out the status of the planet and whether there were signs of the First Born or other guardians. So he listened attentively to the conversation of the mercenaries along the way, trying to piece together some worldviews from their words. At the same time, he did not want to expose more suspicious things by taking the initiative to speak.
But the way he listened attentively without saying a word could be interpreted by others as a bunch of messy things, especially when he was carrying a blonde girl who had died a tragic death on his back. Just the sight of his back was enough to make people cry. Ulyanov deliberately walked next to Hao Ren. The mercenary who had not shown his face seemed to be the warmest of the seven. He seemed to be casually opening the topic. "How did you two meet?"
Hao Ren was discussing with the MDT in his mind why the latter had turned into a corpse. After hearing Ulyanov's question, he subconsciously replied, "It was sent at work."
Ulyanov's whole body stiffened. Then he sighed unnaturally. "You really came from the ultra-conservative Naturals. I didn't expect the persecution of the second-generation Evolved to be so serious."
Then he glanced at the girl's body on Hao Ren's back. "But you actually went this far for her. It seems that nothing is absolute."
Hao Ren could not imagine how much the mercenary in front of him had imagined. But he did not know how to reasonably explain the current situation. So he simply let Ulyanov continue to misunderstand, saving him the trouble of explaining.
Hao Ren's silence caused Ulyanov to have more misunderstandings. The mercenary with a deep voice laughed hoarsely. "In this world, it's not easy for everyone, isn't it? It seems that you finally decided to flee because you can't stay in your hometown anymore. Unfortunately, the Lawless Zone is more dangerous than you think. Although life in the extremist city is difficult, as long as you are obedient, you can still survive. But here, accidents — "
From the corner of his eye, Ulyanov saw a strand of blood-stained blonde hair on Hao Ren's shoulder. He immediately stopped the topic. "Sorry, I said too much."
Hao Ren was speechless.
For the first time in his life, there was a real scandal.
And the other party was a brick.
He even had the thought of dying.
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