"Um…" The girl, whose mind was in a state of confusion because of her previous conversation with Oleg and the others, completely forgot that Ji Zi was a wanted criminal. She nodded and followed her to the second floor. Chapter 44: Easy to Control "Won't Miss Xi'er come along?" Si Luo shifted his gaze to the dashing girl who was standing quietly beside him with her arms folded across her chest, and asked with a chuckle. "No need. I will monitor you here to prevent you wanted criminals from escaping." Xier responded calmly, her eyes just glanced at his face before looking away again. When minimal survival becomes a luxury, appearance is no longer important. "Where can you escape to if you run underground?" Si Luo shrugged, but the girl ignored him. After trying a few more topics and failing to arouse Xier's interest, he temporarily gave up the idea of improving her favor and returned to the room arranged for him on the second floor.
Only Xier, who was acting as the monitor, was left sitting on a chair in the hotel lobby, silently keeping watch over the few people all night. ... "Are you really not going to take a break?" It was midnight. Xier was lying on the fence on the second floor, staring at the dim town in her sight. As a voice sounded, Si Luo, who had just finished his daily report with his wife at home, walked out from behind her and stopped beside her. "I can't sleep. What's wrong?" The girl came back to her senses and looked at Si Luo's deceptively handsome face, her eyes still filled with sufficient vigilance. Because it was dark underground, Xier's skin was actually a bit sickly pale, but the girl's figure was too perfect. Apart from the fact that the snowball size of her chest was a little disappointing compared to the cow-like figure of Cocolia, her other features, including her slender legs and feet and her exquisite and beautiful face, all possessed a charm that amazed Si Luo. "Nothing, I just want to chat with you and learn about some things in the lower district." Si Luo leaned against the fence, quietly admiring the girl's appearance. "There's nothing much to say, it's just as you see it." Xier didn't really care about his gaze. After all, although Si Luo was a bit shy, except when they were in bed, his gazes on her on ordinary days were mostly pure appreciation, which didn't make people feel uncomfortable. And Xier obviously has no self-awareness of her own charm. She was adopted and protected by Oleg at a very young age. When she first carried out a mission, her strength was already considered one of the top powers in the upper and lower areas. Later, she bought this sickle from a businessman named Sambo. Therefore, let alone suffering a loss, so far, except for the monsters produced by the rift, there are few people who dare to appear in her attack range. "Everyone has used up all their energy just to survive. You scum who enjoy life in the upper class area won't understand." "Please take back what you said!" Bronya appeared here at some point, and after hearing what Seele said, her brows frowned visibly, and then she spoke with a serious expression. "We are not enjoying life. In order to protect the safety of the lower areas, the Silver Mane Iron Guards are using their lives to block the approaching cold wave!" There was actually nothing wrong with what the two said. The people in the lower area lost the protection of the Silver Mane Iron Guards and the material support from the upper area. Even survival has become a luxury. The Silver Mane Iron Guards in the upper area also made a lot of sacrifices in order to block the approaching cold wave. Therefore, the only one who needed to take the blame was Cocolia, who was severely punished by Si Luo. “Haha, you’ve obviously abandoned the lower class district, but you still speak so beautifully, you’re worthy of being the eldest lady of the upper class district!” Seele turned around and looked Bronya in the face without giving in. Her fierce gaze, like that of a hungry wolf, made Bronya instinctively take a step back.
"If there is no leader to organize the underground fire to maintain order, do you know what the lower district will become?" "..." "How shameless of you to still say you're protecting us after all this." Bronya did not respond. After all, after seeing the situation in the lower area with her own eyes, as well as the rift that was also approaching the town, she had already made her own decision. She even had some doubts about the mother whom she had always admired the most. "Can I be fair?" Seeing that the atmosphere between the two was becoming tense, Si Luo suddenly interrupted, temporarily attracting their attention. "What we should do now is not to look for responsibilities, but to think about how to change the current situation... Miss Xier, you don't want the children in the lower district to never see the sky outside, do you?" "Ms. Bronya, you can't bear to see the residents of the lower district continue to live in this dark underground, right?" Si Luo, who had already fully understood the personalities of the two, said words that touched their hearts, causing the two people who had just been arguing to fall silent instantly. "Your name is Si Luo, right? What do you think about this matter?" "Although I still cannot trust you, but...if it is for the sake of the people in the lower district, I am willing to give you a chance to prove yourself." Bronya stared at the ground and hesitated for a long time. Finally, she raised her head with a determined expression and looked at him seriously. "Whatever you need me to do, I will cooperate!" "Is it okay even if it goes against Cocolia's wishes?" Si Luo did not reply directly, but asked again with a chuckle. "..." As expected, Bronya was unable to give a positive answer and hesitated again. "I will talk to my mother in person and ask her about the lower district." After all, Bronya still had fantasies about Cocolia. After all, compared to these outsiders whom she had just met for a day, she was more inclined to the mother who raised her, the great guardian who symbolized the pride of Beloberg. "Only if you can get back to the upper area!" Xier on the side curled her lips and interrupted her fantasy rudely. "What do you mean?" "While you were being questioned by the leader, those monsters attacked the members of the Earth Fire near the lift platform. Although no casualties were caused, the operating table of the equipment was completely destroyed." Xier looked at her with sarcasm, but when she occasionally glanced at Si Luo, her gaze became noticeably softer. Although she warned herself deep down not to let her guard down, Si Luo's words just now did help her. In addition, his attitude had always been very friendly, which led her to instinctively develop a certain trust in him without realizing it. "How could this happen... Can't it be fixed?" Bronya's expression froze and she subconsciously clenched her fists. "You have already taken all those who can repair it back to the upper area. Even if you can repair it, there is not enough materials. This is what you call reaping what you sow, Miss Bronya!"
Chapter 45: Silver Hair, Red Eyes, Bare Feet "..." Although she was a soldier with a strong character, for some reason, Bronya felt inexplicably aggrieved by being targeted by Seele, and subconsciously looked at Si Luo. When she was alone, Si Luo's extraordinary charm showed its advantage. Even though he was still a wanted criminal, Bronya instinctively relied on him when she was helpless. "Is there really no other way?" Si Luo, who had secretly filmed the scene just now and was preparing to take it back to the small garden for the girls who were as close to him as sisters and who would come in groups when he practiced sword fighting, coughed lightly and asked seriously without disappointing Bronya's trust. "There's no way. No one here is good at repairing machinery... let alone such delicate equipment... Wait, there seems to be someone who can do it." Facing Si Luo's questioning, Xier's attitude became much better. Although her words were still cold, she was not as aggressive as before. Instead, she replied seriously. "But the child doesn't live in this town. Even the Earth Fire Organization doesn't know where she lives. She can only be seen occasionally when there are mechanical riots or in places where waste is discarded." "What's the contact information?" "We also don't have a way to contact her. In other words, if we want to see her, we have to rely on luck." "That's no problem! Where does that person usually appear? I'm still very confident in my luck!" Hearing this, Si Luo smiled confidently. Since luck is involved, he has to mention his experience of winning ten golds in a row. With his wife's rule-level protection, any probabilistic event that is possible will eventually become 100% as long as it is in his favor. "Go to the end of this road and go through two tunnels. It is the garbage mountain used to dispose of abandoned machinery. The last time she was seen was there." Xier pointed forward and responded calmly. "I just couldn't sleep, so I went over to try my luck... What do you guys say, do you want to join us?" Si Luo nodded and asked with interest. "To prevent you from escaping, I will stay and monitor your companions." Although she had a certain degree of trust in him, that was only relative. Xier would not be stupid enough to open her heart to him completely just because of a few words. So after hesitating for a while, she still rejected Si Luo's invitation to go with him. "Sorry, my mind is a little confused right now, I need some time to think about it..." Bronya clenched her fists and responded with a complicated expression. "Okay, then stop arguing." Rejected by both of them, Si Luo shrugged his shoulders, then jumped directly from the second floor, following the direction Xier pointed, and soon disappeared on the dim road. "I thought it was a little too simple. Sorry... Miss Xier..." After watching him leave, Bronya bit her lip, and finally spoke slowly and apologized to Seele. Regardless of the facts, the situation in the lower class area is there, and her identity means she is not qualified to deny the other party. "..."
To be honest, Seele didn't know how to deal with this situation, especially with Bronya's sincere attitude, which made it impossible for her to ridicule her like before. "Nothing... It's nothing... As long as you know you are wrong..." After hesitating for a long time, Xier finally uttered only this sentence, then turned around and left the second-floor balcony and returned to the first-floor hall. "If you have nothing else, go back to your room." "..." Seele's rather cute reaction made Bronya slightly stunned. After all, Seele's character had been very bad during this period, and no one would have thought that under that fierce character, there was such a cute side hidden. "Wait, I can't sleep... Can you please talk to me for a while, Ms. Xier?" For some reason, Bronya felt herself relax a little, and the tense expression on her face relaxed slightly, and she trotted after him. "Don't call me Miss, I'm not the Miss from the upper class district like you guys!" "Then...Xier, can I call you that?" "..." "as you like!" It was obvious that even though the two people here had only met for the first time and their personalities were completely different from what Si Luo knew, they were, however, just as he had expected, already showing a tendency to develop into good friends. ... The living environment in the lower area is indeed extremely harsh. Even in Panyan Town, where the environment is the best and the Underground Fire Organization maintains order, only one in ten residents are left. Many houses passed by have lost the breath of life, and except for the patrolling Underground Fire members on the road, there are few residents outside. Si Luo did not react much to this, not because he was cold-hearted, but because he had already seen the real hell - compared to the dark ages in the box garden where humans were raised like livestock and there was no order at all, the environment here could even be called a paradise on earth. "Hurry up! Today is our Mole Gang's first operation, we must not fail!" "Boss, slow down!" At this moment, accompanied by an extremely crisp and childish voice, a blonde loli in a fleece coat and several equally small figures rushed past from not far away. The energetic words added a touch of warmth like the rising sun to this dark and desolate town. Si Luo couldn't help but smile. In fact, he had acted on his own. After all, they had agreed to let San Yueqi and the others decide how to proceed. But since he was a kind-hearted person, he couldn't bear to see these cute young children continue to suffer in such a place. Moreover, based on his understanding of San Yueqi and the others, even if they discussed this matter later, they would definitely choose to do so. Therefore, instead of wasting time waking up the tired girls to talk, it would be better to give them some small help to reduce the time they would waste in looking for someone later. However, apart from looking for someone, Si Luo did not plan to do anything else, so he did not waste time. After speeding up for a few seconds, he left the town, passed through the mine tunnel and came to a garbage dump where a large number of mechanical parts were piled up. "..." Si Luo didn't know if the protection given by his wife was effective. As soon as he arrived at the outskirts of the garbage mountain, his wife's radar started jumping wildly, and then a petite figure appeared in his sight. Silver hair, red eyes, bare feet, and a petite loli. The figure of her dancing completely on his XP even made Si Luo stunned for a moment, wondering if he was under some kind of illusion. Chapter 46 She has a pair of feet, and I have a mouth "..." On the other side, probably frightened by Si Luo's sudden appearance, the girl subconsciously wanted to escape like a frightened little rabbit. However, because she did not notice the parts under her feet, she tripped and fell to the ground.
"Well…" The sharp parts were getting closer and closer to her, and the girl subconsciously closed her eyes. However, the expected pain did not come. A pair of hands wrapped around her waist. When she opened her eyes again, she had been picked up by the stranger she had just seen. "Thank you...thank you, big brother..." Although the physical contact with the opposite sex made the innocent girl a little overwhelmed, her well-behaved and sensible character still made her express her gratitude to the other party first.