From star abyss

"There is a lake...cough! What does this smell like? It's so pungent..." Qiu Ran couldn't help but ask as she was choked and coughed.

"Idiot, in this cold sky and freezing ground outside, can a lake that can emit light be a normal lake?" Nomi lowered his body and stroked the snow on the ground.

"Car prints."

Li Ozi saw it:

"The traces are very new. A convoy passed by not long ago - it seems that a car separated from the convoy."

"Is it from the White Fang Gang?"

"Not sure. Could be other wanderers."

Li Ozi shook his head. It was difficult to talk about this kind of thing. He took out the short knife and blade from his backpack and inserted them into his waist.

"You can't drive there!" Nomi said, "There's a landslide here, so you can't drive over there. Take a closer look."

"You watch the car here. We'll go there."

Li Ozi gave some instructions, then put a camouflage on the vehicle and walked towards the lake with Nomi.

The storms in the outside world are too strong and the soil is not stable. Even if you have a map, it is not easy to use. It is common for people to run away due to the wind, and hillsides to turn into depressions overnight.

Judging from the tire marks, there shouldn't be many people there, so we can't rule out the possibility that they were wanderers from outside looking for warm areas to escape the cold.

After walking a few hundred steps, they saw the truth about Glitter Lake: From the distant hills, ten pipelines as big as trucks emerged from the mountain pass, continuously discharging dirty and hot wastewater. It poured down from a height of ten meters, and all kinds of garbage, waste products, filth, and corpse residues were naturally washed and accumulated on the shore, forming an embankment.

"Holy shit...frost-plated beast!"

Nomi cursed:

"Look! Over there - what is that?!"

Li Ozi looked in the direction of her fingertips: Beside a rock, there were several messy abandoned tanks piled up, and a striking yellow-black radiation symbol was clearly engraved on them.

"Radiated waste."

Li Ozi said:

"It turned out to be a frost-coated sewage pipe. It's not unusual. There used to be a country that was living a pretty good life that poured nuclear wastewater into the sea."

"These bastards, beasts, worse than pigs and dogs, wolf-hearted scum! It's because the Four Kingdoms have been doing this kind of thing to the outside world that the Blue Star has become like this!"

Nomi held the wrench and was filled with indignation:

"Bah! You talk about human rights and morality, industrial development, and necessary sacrifices - the people of the four countries have sucked the blood of the people of the Blue Star to achieve a hypocritical and disgusting prosperity... Just like this, they still call our Rose Army terrorists, ( Purify society) The frost-coated sky rings the rising red arrow! One by one, the four countries are the biggest terrorists!"

Li Ozi did not deny that although Nomi's words were a bit unpleasant, she was not wrong.

He checked the nearby environment and found that someone had indeed been here. He took a short break to warm up and then left.

"There is someone here, sitting on the wreckage of this scrapped TV. He must have just entered the wastewater. He left a pool of vomit here with blood clots in it... He must have rummaged in the wastewater to eat. .”

Li Ozi walked along the remaining footprints on the ground, and soon found a body with a self-assembled car next to it.

Just a wanderer, he vomited everywhere, and in pain, shot his own head off.

Li Ozi stabbed the corpse's eye socket with a knife to confirm the kill, and then turned over the corpse. The opponent's equipment was very bad, not as good as his own.

Nomi stood behind him, carefully searching around.

Fortunately, he had no companions. Nomi boarded the assembled car and rummaged around for a while, but only found a torn copy of "Reading Stories for Young Children" and a paintbrush as long as a little finger.

After reading for a while, Nomi threw the book away. One of the pages with gentle female illustrations was covered with various disgusting parts, and there were also some yellow and white stains... Nomi didn't need to think about it. Know what the owner of the book did to this thing.

After hearing Li Ozi's analysis of the cause of death of the deceased, Nomi muttered:

"What's there to eat there... What an idiot, stinky idiot."

"You're dead, don't be so malicious - this car still has 42 liters of oil. Go get the oil drum from the car and drain out the oil."

"I know." Nomi rubbed her hands hard, ran back to the car, got straws and oil barrels, and collected the remaining fuel in the car.

"By the way, what was found on the body?"

"I found a letter. His name should be Benedickson. He heard from his friends that his mother was killed by robbers, so he was going to join the Army of Roses for revenge. There is also a relic given to him by his mother: A ring made of can rings.”

Since the mission was not triggered, Li Ozi balled up the letter and threw it away. The ring relic made of a can ring was even more meaningless garbage. He threw it directly into the wastewater lake.

[Your behavior makes Nomi’s favorability towards you -3]

"Um?"

Li Ozi glanced at Nomi. She looked expressionless, but she turned out to be quite concerned about this kind of thing.

Although the favorability level has dropped a bit, Li Aozi doesn't care very much.

Anyway, Nomi is the temporary teammate he fooled, and he can kick him away after enough use.

"Benny...he's a really pitiful man, but the Rose Army doesn't have time to deal with the gangsters in the outside world."

Nomi shook her head:

"As long as we defeat Shikoku, everything will be fine."

"Behind the rise of every country is the history of blood and tears of another group of people. From ancient times to the present, empires have never been sacred." Li Ozi shrugged.

"Then smash all these empires, tear them into pieces, and trample them under your feet." Nomi said.

"Then what?"

Li Ozi said casually:

"Then you find that in order to manage the power to overthrow the empire, you have to create a stronger, more stable imperial regime. Repeat - history proves that humans are humans and they never transcend history."

"I couldn't think of that much."

Nomi shook her head:

"I'm just an idiot. The instructors say that I do nothing much most of the time. I'm just a little wild cat who knows how to fight."

"But even a wild cat like me can't tolerate the world becoming like this."

"I don't know if other people will have a better choice, and there may be tyrants in the future, there will be new officials, and the world will be worse - but I would rather make hundreds of mistakes than maintain the status quo."

She stared forward, her single eye full of determination:

"Under this red and black sky is a world buried in white snow and yellow sand, a world full of despair."

She turned her head and looked at Li Ozi:

"Don't think about all this too indifferently. This is our world. Whether it's me or you, aren't we also part of this world?"

"This is not a random game. For us outsiders, the Rose Army, no, all those who resist the Four Kingdoms, are our belief."

"In fact, anyone with a discerning eye knows that it is impossible to fight against the Four Kingdoms - but we insist on doing this. Even if we just use our teeth and nails to bring a little pain to the Four Kingdoms, this kind of struggle process is enough to prove one point to them:"

"We, the reptiles who are eking out an existence in the outside world, are just as human beings as the people in the four countries who blow on the heater, eat steamed buns, watch TV and read books."