Alien paradise

"It's so pitiful." Elodie said worriedly, "The girl's life is unstable, maybe she has some disease."

"He was making strong supplications."

Chaoyang walked towards each other. The boy also heard the footsteps and raised his head to look this way.

"Are you in any trouble? Maybe I can help you solve this problem..."

He slowed down mid-sentence because the other person's expression was obviously not right. The boy was frightened at first, and then turned into despair and anger. Even from a few meters away, he could feel the hatred contained in the other person's clenched teeth.

"You...you give my father's life back!" He put down the girl in his arms, picked up a pebble on the roadside, and rushed directly towards the rising sun!

"Be careful." Elodie reacted much faster than Chaoyang. She ducked in front of the demon and easily grabbed the other's wrist with one hand, while blocking the boy's chest with her other hand.

"Let me go, let me go! I want to avenge my father!" The boy shouted with all his strength.

revenge?

Chaoyang touched his face...could it be such a coincidence that Barif had tricked this family?

"Ramon, Cathead, Pike! The murderer is here, come quickly!" Seeing that his movement was blocked, the boy shouted loudly.

Suddenly, several heads poked out from other alley entrances.

This time it was not just children, but several adults as well.

"It will be troublesome if we are surrounded. We have to leave!" Elodie immediately reminded.

Chaoyang also knew that there would definitely be no way to sign this contract. He nodded, turned around and ran away. Elodie pushed the boy away gently and ran back with him.

There was only a whooshing sound, and a dark brown thing shot straight towards the sun.

Elodie stretched out her hand to stop it, and the thing hit her palm and immediately fell apart. Chaoyang suddenly smelled a strong stench.

It’s actually a dung mass!

At some point, figures even appeared on the roof of the bungalow.

"Murderer, go to hell!"

"Get out of here, this is not your place!"

"If you dare to come again, I will kill you!" Those who heard the news shouted with fists in the air, as if the murderer was a being that everyone could kill. However, no one actually rushed forward... Everyone just screamed in place until they watched Chaoyang leave the area.

What a hell!

Chaoyang gasped and asked, "Your hand..."

"It's okay, this thing is just disgusting and can't hurt anyone." Elodie shook off the dirt on her hands, "I've been in the slums before, and I can tolerate this thing better than you."

"Barif seems to be more famous than I expected. I didn't expect that even an ordinary resident who met casually on the roadside would recognize this face." Chaoyang tore off a piece of his sleeve and wiped it for the angel - the clothes were not his after all. "Change the itinerary. Let's go to the east beach first."

"Okay, but I think you need to put on some disguise."

Half an hour later, the two changed their route and went around the edge of the city to Dongtou Beach. Chaoyang got himself a hood and hid his entire face under the brim, and then successfully passed the "downtown area". However, the sights along the way still shocked the two of them. The further they went out, the more deserted the city became, and for a long time they could not find a normally operating shop. The doors and windows of every house are closed, and occasionally you can see an inn or tavern, with a fierce man standing at the door holding a machete and an iron rod. In some alleys and corners, intermittent yelling and shouts of death could be heard, while the people lying on the street remained motionless, as if they were accustomed to such fights taking place in broad daylight.

After arriving at the beach, the situation did not improve at all.

You can see many fishing boats and drying nets on the beach, but the boats and the nets all look abandoned, as if no one has taken care of them for a long time. Chaoyang realized that this was obviously not normal - Qianlimbao was also backward, divided into the inner city where the rich lived and the outer city where the poor gathered, but being backward had backward ways of living, and those logging factories and transportation companies had never stopped. over run. Because people don't get much salary, they have to work extra hard so that they can support their families with that meager salary.

However, he could not see such a scene at the beach.

Not to mention big fishing companies, at least fishermen have to go out to sea on their own, right? Will there be a fish drying ground at the beach? Will merchants come to buy fish and meat?

He still remembered Wanliji's records of the Acropolis.

This is a chaotic and lively small town. Due to the proliferation of smuggling activities and the gathering of "exiles" who cannot enter the depths of the land for various reasons, the business here is even more active than Qianlimburg.

After walking about five hundred meters north, a cliff appeared beside the beach. Although its height was not as high as some hills, it was definitely eye-catching when placed on the Acropolis.

"That should be the location of the underwater cave mentioned in the log." Chaoyang said.

"What's hanging on those wooden poles over there?" Elodie squinted her eyes.

Soon they knew the answer.

It was all corpses.

There were three rows of wooden poles erected on the beach, which was not wide. There were hundreds of wooden poles in total. On these poles, either dead people or people who were about to die were hung. The sea breeze pushes the smell of decay out to sea, attracting large numbers of flying predators. Various unnamed birds squat on the wooden frame and peck at the dead, and occasionally target those who are dying. They would twitch twice when certain organs were pecked, and their hoarse moans proved that they were not completely dead yet.

Chaoyang took a breath.

Could this also be Barif's doing?

"How... could they do this?" Elodie couldn't help but ask.

There are not only dead people under the cliff, but also many living people - compared to the abandoned beach fishery just now, this place is more like the core of the Acropolis. Layers of barbed wire fences were erected below the cliff, and many armed guards were stationed here, staring at the crowds busy outside the barbed wire fence.

"The two people over there, stop!" one of the guards yelled and pointed the spear in his hand at them.

"Don't be impulsive. Act according to the opportunity." Chaoyang warned, and then slowly took off his hood.

If even ordinary residents know me, there should only be more people here who know me. After all, the Governor said that Barif was the person in charge of the excavation project.

Sure enough, the moment he took off his hat, the guard suddenly shivered, and then stood up straight, "Good afternoon, Lord Barif! Why didn't you bring the guards?"

"There are too many people and it's too noisy. I just came to see the scene."

"You are right...but things are not peaceful these days. You must pay attention to your safety." The guard said attentively.

It seems that Barif's reputation is not false. Even if he dare not show off his temper in front of the governor, to these low-level thugs, he is the one who speaks the truth. Even if it's obviously nonsense, the other party doesn't dare to refute.

Chaoyang led Elodie through the blockade composed of barbed wire, all the way to the bottom of the cliff, where there was indeed a hole extending downwards.

"Lord Barif, you, you are finally here!" A young man wearing glasses came forward, "Um... has the Governor agreed to our request?"

Chaoyang obviously couldn't ask for any request directly.

He looked at the other person for a few times. He was wearing a set of stain-resistant denim clothes and had a flame emblem on his right chest with the words "Phlogiston Company" written underneath. In addition, the man had a pencil on his ear and a tape measure in his hand.

The other person is probably a technician like myself.

"I agreed, but I didn't fully agree. I just asked me to wait a little longer."

"W-what does this mean?" The other party was stunned, "But we don't have enough manpower, so we can't continue to explore the weak points of the wall..."

"I don't know what it means. How about you ask the Governor?" Chaoyang asked coldly.

The man immediately shut his mouth, "No, I'll just wait."

"Come with me down there and have a look."

"Yes." He took two steps and then stopped, looking at Elodie with some suspicion, "Sir, do you want to take her with you?"

Elodie immediately smiled at Chaoyang and said, "Sir, please go ahead. I will wait for you here."