Reboot: Mechanic

306 Ignorance

Time was going extremely slow according to Shi Tian's mind. As his body was laid flatly for Mary to remove the bullets from his body, he could hear the metal clanking sound whenever Mary removed one. At first, it was just a few metal clanking, but as time passed by, he heard more metal clanking sounds, indicating that there were more than just a few bullets lodged in his body.

When he realized that, Shi Tian knew he was in trouble.

'Would they think I'm not a human, and possibly a robot instead?' Shi Tian thought to himself. He didn't want to create any misunderstandings, but with the current circumstances, even he would start to think the person was not a human.

So why wouldn't Mary and Vanessa believe he was some extraterrestrial species? To make matters worse, the atmosphere was completely silent. Other than the metal clanking sound, no one else was making any noises.

"Have you eaten yet, Mary?" Shi Tian tried to make some small talk, hoping to ease the atmosphere. The enemies were gone, so shouldn't the atmosphere be colorful and brightful? Instead of this gloomy atmosphere, almost as if they were at the end of the world.

Actually, they were at the end of the world given the world was overrun by monsters and could only retain a few locations as strongholds. But that wasn't the point.

"I've got some corpses that I have killed and we can cook them." Shi Tian explained, letting them know that he got some monster corpse that could be eaten.

Mary twitched her brows when she heard his suggestion. What Shi Tian suggested had made it worse for him.

"Nathan, I don't know if you realize this, but monster corpses are mutated. You can't just cook their corpse unless you process it and extract the impurities." Mary said in an exhausted tone.

And she continued, "If a person eats the mutated corpse directly, then food poisoning was the least of their concern. They'll have a chance of being infected and mutated as well." "W-What?" Shi Tian exclaimed in shock, trying to get up but Mary poured some more isopropyl alcohol on his back, prompting him to stay down.

"Don't tell me you have even eaten the monster's corpse directly?" Vanessa chimed in, seemingly dumbfounded by the revelation.

"Uhh no, of course not." Shi Tian quickly denied it.

However, his denial doesn't seem convincing enough. And Mary was honestly too appalled to even question him further. She really did not want to know the truth, even though she had an answer somewhat in her mind.

Vanessa also stopped enquiring when she noticed Mary was uninterested as well. As for Shi Tian, he had managed to learn another valuable lesson today.

It seemed that the time when he ate the Armored Rat's corpse directly was equivalent to suicide. Yet he didn't receive any side effects.

Maybe at that time, the integrated chip in his mind was already working things behind the scenes without his knowledge. Otherwise, he would have long died.

'How hilarious. I kept saying I must be cautious, but instead of cautious, I have been courting death at every turn and corner.' Shi Tian exclaimed inwardly, feeling bitter about his action and decision.

Were it not for the integrated chip, then he would have died a long time ago. He wouldn't even be able to step foot in Gearits City if he weren't blessed. The world had changed too much, and whenever he thought he attained some knowledge, another fact that showed his ignorance came in. It was as if the world was constantly trying to remind him that he was powerless and wasn't omnipotent. Sometime later, Mary finished patching up the wounds for Shi Tian. "Go rest now." She then ordered. "As for the recording, we can wait a while to upload that. We've wasted enough time already and we should have been in the dense area by now." 'You don't say genius!' Shi Tian wanted to scream those words aloud but didn't dare to.

He wasn't being cowardly but was giving her the respect she deserved. After all, she did patch his wounds up even though his body was abnormal and didn't have any side effects.

"Wait a minute, didn't you go ahead to the dense area?" Shi Tian put on his clothes and asked suddenly. "I was distracting Commander Theobold's elite soldiers while the two of you went ahead. So I thought you have been there already." The time he spent fighting against Theobold's soldiers, plus the fact that he spent a night alone to recuperate. There should have been enough time for them to arrive in the dense area.

Yet reality seemed to differ and it was crystal clear that they didn't enter it.

Mary looked at Shi Tian with a hint of annoyance. "Well, we didn't go ahead as you thought," she replied. "We waited for you."

Shi Tian blinked, a bit surprised. "You waited for me? But I thought we were in a hurry to get to the dense area."

Vanessa chimed in, a mischievous smile playing on her lips. "Nathan, you did some crazy stuff back there, and we didn't want to leave you behind without knowing what happened. Mary insisted on waiting for you."

As much as Shi Tian wanted to believe their explanation, there was an intuition of some sort. He was positive that they were just trying to avoid the topic and was not speaking the truth.

Wait for him?

Ha, that might be true if the world wasn't so fucked up! However, the world was fucked up, and knowing these two shrewd women, Shi Tian was positive they are hiding something from him.

"I might look like a fool, but please don't underestimate too much." Shi Tian stood up and said coolly. As if he was going to be that naive and believe their claims. "Speak, what caused the two of you to not advance forward?" He asked, demanding the truth. Beating around the bushes with these two was a waste of time and energy.

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