In the small living room.
The intercom on the sofa suddenly made a crackling noise.
Mia, who had been resting her eyes, opened them.
“Is anyone there? Is anyone still alive? Ron? Ott? Can you hear me? Please, answer me! Really, anyone! Please, I beg of you, don’t pretend you can’t hear me!”
It was a somewhat hoarse male voice.
“I don’t want to be alone, I beg of you, anyone, respond, say something, please, God, don’t do this to me, don’t leave me alone.”
Towards the end, he seemed unable to bear it and began to cry.
The man’s voice kept coming through the intercom, and his crying made Mia feel somewhat irritable.
Mia took out a handkerchief and pressed it against the talk button on the intercom.
“A grown man, crying for what?”
“You, you, you! Who is it? Where are you? Who are you? I’m… I’m in the mechanical room, I’ll come find you!”
One could clearly feel the joy in the voice on the other side of the intercom.
The man was so excited that he became incoherent.
To him, the sweet voice of the girl coming through the intercom was nothing short of a redemption, an angelic hymn!
Although Mia somewhat looked down on a man crying so pitifully, she still softened her heart and began to speak: “I’m currently………………”
Her words were cut short.
“Click!”
“Ah! Ahhh! Don’t come over! Ahhh! Don’t come over! Ahhhhhhhhhhh!”
“Smack!”
It was the sound of chewing and swallowing.
Mia’s face turned pale instantly, but the intercom had not been disconnected.
Apparently, the man on the other side was holding the talk button tightly and not letting go.
“Don’t come over, don’t come over…… Mechanical room, don’t come over……………”
Even if he was doomed to die, he wanted to warn the girl not to come to the mechanical room.
It was the last thing he could do.
“Smack! Squish! Crunch!”
The talk button was released, and the intercom suddenly disconnected.
But soon after, it reconnected.
However, this time it was clearly not the man using the intercom.
“I…… I don’t, myself……………………………… respond……………… God……………… God……. left…… alone……””Mechanical…… where, find you……””Don’t, mechanical room, come……………………………… mechanical room…… come…..”
The disjointed words, composed of multiple overlapping sound segments, were indistinguishable in gender and sounded nauseating.
Mia knew it wasn’t the man speaking just now.
“You disgust me,” Mia pressed the talk button on the intercom: “So, you’re dead.”
After hanging up, Mia stood up, wrapped the intercom in a handkerchief before holding it in her hand, and then used a seemingly ordinary hair ribbon to tie her golden hair into a ponytail.
If one were to enlarge this hair ribbon tenfold, they would find an intricate floral pattern outlined with fine gold threads.
No one knew that this single hair ribbon was worth as much as ten Black Gold Heavy Industry Sweepers.
Mia walked to an iron door with a gear painted on it.
She remembered the wolf girl and the two boys had gone in through here.
Thinking of the screams she had heard from the intercom just now, Mia whispered, “I hope you’re still alive.”
Then, she pushed open the iron door and strode in.
On the other side.
Kasa firmly covered Roel’s mouth, preventing him from making any noise.
Just moments ago, the two had witnessed an unknown creature brutally devouring a man in the Black Gold Heavy Guard uniform.
The screams echoed in the small room, and the sounds the creature made while consuming the guard sent shivers down their spines.
However, from the dying guard’s words on the intercom, the two concluded that they were in the mechanical room.
Indeed, the guard that Kasa and Roel had seen was the same one who had spoken to Mia over the intercom.
When the two boys first encountered the guard, they found him sitting on the ground in a state of collapse and had considered whether to go comfort him.
Then they saw the creature, and they quickly found a place to hide, witnessing the gory scene of the creature eating the man.
Fortunately, Kasa was quick-handed and quickly covered Roel’s mouth, preventing him from screaming.
Otherwise, if the creature had noticed them, they would have been doomed.
Kasa didn’t think that he and Roel, without even a decent weapon, could be a match for the creature.
Soon, the creature had its fill, leaving not even the remains on the ground, only a pool of blood and splatters on the walls.
Then, the creature turned and crawled away.
At that moment, Kasa felt Roel struggling violently.
He glanced at the creature that hadn’t crawled far away and was about to remind Roel to be quiet when, through Roel’s azure blue eyes, Kasa saw a bloodthirsty maw right above his head.
If it closed even slightly, those dagger-like teeth would pierce through his skull, and his skull would be separated from his body!
At this critical moment, Kasa’s mind became strangely calm.
He thought back to when he first arrived in this world.
Five years ago, the brief moment of joy that lasted less than half a minute quickly turned into despair.
He soon realized that he had become a frail ten-year-old child, realized that he was an orphan, and realized that if he didn’t eat slop, he would starve to death on the roadside.
Life in a different world was not as beautiful as he had once imagined.
Then came three years of struggling to survive.
Naively, he believed that since God had brought him from that war-torn world to this new one, there must be a reason for his existence.
Perhaps he had some powerful talent that hadn’t been discovered yet, perhaps he had special abilities that hadn’t awakened, perhaps his aptitude was just waiting to be revealed.
What a beautiful fantasy……
He brought this fantasy, along with a rusty little knife he had found and the money he had saved over the past three years, to the recruitment hall.
After a series of tests, looking at the numbers on the report and the two-word evaluation at the bottom—”ordinary”, he laughed like a madman and cried like a fool.
If God didn’t need him, then why bring him to this world?
Life is not long, but he didn’t have the confidence to endure another three years like this…… The rusty little knife in his arms seemed to mock his naivety, waiting for the moment when the down-and-out boy would stab it into his own throat.
PS: The young grass is tender and needs nutrients and water~ Only by careful cultivation, using seven times forty-nine days of daily hundred monthly tickets as fertilizer, the monthly increase of tens of thousands of collections as sunlight, and the patronage of dozens of rich girls as trampling, can it grow into a proud sapling!
PS2: You ask how the young grass grows into a sapling?
We don’t know ………………
PS3: Newbie on the road, urgently needs protection from the big shots∼