Chapter 9: Names are a very important thing
"Want to scam me? That's a good idea." Reinette walked out of the Messenger Association and went straight home.
That guy's motives were definitely not pure. Not to mention that he commissioned her in this way, the fact that he didn't let his men deliver the letter was already questionable.
Just like Reinette said, his gang has many talented people under his command, and it is a simple matter to find someone to deliver the letter, so why bother looking for her.
As for his assurance, Reinette was just a messenger, and anyone who believed him was a fool. When the things were in Reinette's hands, it was not his business what to say at that time.
If he hadn't made that guarantee, Reinette would still have trusted him a little bit, but now that he has made that guarantee, it's definitely not true.
Reinette hurried to the downstairs of the building where she lived. She rented this small house from the owner. As for the owner, he took the money she gave him and went traveling.
Although the rental was for 15 days, Reinette has to leave early due to the current situation.
She opened the garage door, made sure no one entered the garage, opened the trunk to confirm that red was still unconscious, and then Reinette drove out directly.
When they arrived in the desert, Reinette opened the in-car map and swiped at the current locations of the mobile cities displayed on it.
"Let me see where to travel next?"
After scratching for a while
"I do want to go to Yan country, but it will require crossing Kazdel, so forget about that place."
Reinette's ultimate goal is Yan. After reaching Yan, she will probably find a place to settle down.
Longmen or anywhere else would be fine, even if it was just city that looked similar, Reinette wanted to go back there.
"Let's go to the border city of Siracusa first, and then bypass Kazdel and go to Yan Country. Even if the Battle of the Two Kings is over in Kazdel, that place is still not a good place, let alone worth traveling."
While driving, Reinette stepped on the brakes and stopped. In the wilderness ahead, a group of people in black robes stood there.
Reinette raised her eyebrows. It seemed that they were not the gangsters from the previous mobile city. In other words.
" red is the one who caused the trouble. Never mind. After all, she was an operator in my previous life, and she was the one I saved with great difficulty."
Reinette pushed the door and got out of the car, with the compound bow already in her hand.
The black-robed man who was leading the opposite party spoke first.
"Lord of Water, we have no intention of provoking a dispute, nor do we intend to be your enemy."
Reinette raised her eyebrows. With the title of Lord of Water, it seemed that the people behind them were not gangsters after all.
The black-robed man who was leading the group breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Reinette stop moving.
"Lord of Water, the person behind you in the infirmary is the one we need. She has nothing to do with you..."
Reinette interrupted, "Similarly, I don't care what relationship she has with you. She is my patient now, and I am a doctor."
The man in black robe became nervous when his words were interrupted by Reinette, but when he saw that Reinette did not take any follow-up action, he plucked up the courage to continue speaking.
"You seem to have offended the gangs in that mobile city. We understand that the anger of the gangs is meaningless to you, but although the ants are small, they may be annoying enough. As long as you hand over the person in the car to us, we can help you solve this trouble."
Reinette frowned. The man in black robe's heart suddenly tightened when he saw Reinette frowning, but seeing whether Reinette would move or not, and thinking of the master behind him, he could only continue to speak bravely.
"The person in the car has nothing to do with you. Using her as a trade should be a suitable choice. You will also gain the friendship of the Wolf Lord."
"Choice? Oh, are you threatening me?"
Reinette is never afraid of fighting. She is a doctor, but the bow in her hand is not.
As the Reinette race completely transformed into Oceanid, her personality also changed a little.
Become easy-going, become tolerant, but just like the ocean, it embraces everything when it is calm, calm and easy-going, but if it is angry, it will be like a huge wave.
She had already said that red was her patient and she was a doctor, and they had the audacity to talk to her in terms of transaction and friendship.
As soon as these words came out, the black-robed men knelt on the ground instantly, and the leading black-robed man instantly realized that he had said the wrong thing.
"We are very sorry, respected Lord of Water, that is not what we meant!"
They seemed to hear the sound of waves crashing in their ears. What was that? Was it an illusion?
Their fingertips touched the ground, and the ground seemed to gradually become moist, as if it was being soaked by invisible water.
The people in the black robes broke out in cold sweat. They understood how much pain Reinette's words would bring to them.
The wrath of a god, even the slightest, was something they could not bear.
"Let them go, and forget about this matter."
Suddenly a low voice came to their ears.
"…yes."
But even if they heard the instructions, they only dared to move slowly to the side and make way.
After retreating a certain distance, they knelt on the ground again, not daring to move anymore. They had to accept the anger that their words had just provoked.
Reinette's ears twitched slightly, and she glanced at the car behind her, then looked at the few black-robed men who were retreating: "Humph, get lost."
"Yes, thank you for your kindness, Lord of Water."
As Reinette finished speaking, the men in black robes breathed a sigh of relief, and just as Reinette had said, they rolled away from Reinette's sight.
"Hmph, what a troublesome day."
Reinette put away her bow and arrow and did not get into the car directly. Instead, she went to the back of the car as she had just heard a slight noise.
This is also the reason why Reinette let those people go so easily. Compared to punishing a few insignificant minions, her patients are more important.
Far away.
"What a terrifying aura..." In the wilderness, a wolf stood on a rock, staring in the direction of Reinette.
Compared to those ordinary people, he, as the beast master, felt the horror of that aura more intuitively.
It was as if the surrounding land had directly transformed into a concept called the ocean, deep and vast, as if embracing everything, yet faintly revealing a hint of violence.
"Why would a sea god appear on land?" This was the thing he was most confused about.
It was bad enough that a sea god appeared in the middle of the land, but he also became a doctor. He really couldn't understand it.
"Forget it. I hope the other Siracusa don't anger her again, or we might not be able to play our game."
In the car.
Reinette walked into the medical room and said to Red, who was lying on the operating table with her whole body in a plaster cast: "Are you awake? Can you hear me? If you can, blink your eyes."
The confused wolf cub turned his head with difficulty to look at Reinette. When he heard her words, he blinked instinctively.
"How does it feel? Does it hurt? If so, blink your eyes."
The girl blinked as she felt the pain all over her body.
"Yeah, you're conscious, there's no problem. Don't move. You're in a cast."
Reinette comforted the girl who was trying to struggle to get up, raised her hand and summoned a ball of water, wrapping the girl in it.
The shape of the water mass changed slightly, making the girl in it as comfortable as possible without affecting the fracture point.
"May I have your name?"
The confused girl was thinking, and what echoed in her mind was emptiness and confusion.
"I don't know. I don't remember..."
Reinette nodded and picked up a ballpoint pen from the table beside her.
"Can you move your hands?"
Hearing this, the girl tried to move her right hand, but it was bandaged and obviously not suitable for movement. Fortunately, her left hand was still able to move.
Reinette looked at the girl's moving left hand, nodded, controlled the water flow, slowly lifted the girl's left hand, and placed the pen in her hand.
"Can you please try to make this pen write?"
The girl observed the pen in her hand, and finally pressed the button on the top, and the pen core popped out.
...…
"Well, you can't remember a lot of things, but still have basic common sense."
Reinettez conducted a series of tests on the girl, nodded, and made a record in the medical record.
The girl looked at Reinette's actions. She understood that the other party was helping her, but she didn't understand why the other party wanted to help her.
So the girl asked directly.
Reinette paused while taking notes, turned around and said with a smile: "I am a doctor, and you are the injured, this is enough."
"Hmm…"
The girl turned her head and saw the report in Reinette's hand. She couldn't understand the records on it, but she saw that in the name column, Reinette did not add anything, and it was empty.
"Do you know me?"
Reinette shook her head. She would not really think that the girl in front of her was the operator in her previous life's phone. That was just the file and plot that she knew, not to mention that Hypergryph did not actually give much attention to Red.
The girl felt lost, and the blankness in her mind made her a little irritated.
Reinette put down what she was holding, walked to the girl, and stroked her head.
"Don't worry, I'll remember it, but this is really not a good idea. Since you can't remember the name, just use a code name."
"Codename?"
"Well, Codename, do you have any ideas?"
Hearing this, the girl looked up and saw Reinette's red coat hanging on the wall. Of course, all the weapons hidden inside had been taken out by Reinette and placed on the table.
"red..."
"Um?"
red turned her head and looked at Reinette: " red."
Reinette reached out and touched red's head: "Well, red, your name is very important. Don't forget it again."
"Hmm!" red in the water ball excitedly shook her tail. She had a new name.
Then red remembered another thing, how to address the person in front of her?
Someone who would help me unconditionally even if I was seriously injured and unable to move, and someone who could make me feel at ease...
A word suddenly popped up in red's empty head, and then the naive red shouted out the word bluntly.
"Mother!"
(T/n: YEAH!!!! Tiamama!!!)
Reinette, who was still happily rubbing red's head, paused for a moment. Did red just utter a not-so-nice name?
" red, what did you call me just now?"
"Mother?"
"No, you don't have to call me mom. Call me sister. I can only accept this level of address. Or you can call me Reinette."
red tilted her head. She didn't understand why her mother reacted so strongly.
"Okay, Mom."
"Call me sister..."
"Yeah, mom!"
Reinette stared at red's eyes, but the other's eyes were full of excitement and relief. Reinette could only hold her forehead and shake her head, and give up for the time being.
"Okay, Red, you need to rest."
As Reinette spoke, she controlled the water ball and placed red steadily back on the operating table, but she did not remove the water ball. Instead, she let it continue to serve as a mattress.
"Hmm."
"Be good, take a rest first. I need to go drive and I'll be back to accompany you in the evening."
Reinette patted red's head, and red nodded obediently and closed her eyes. Then the moment Reinette put her hand down, Reinette found that red had fallen asleep.
"Shd fell asleep in seconds. What an enviable sleep quality."
Seeing this, Reinette quietly walked out of the car and returned to the driver's seat.
"We've had enough trouble today. I hope nothing more will happen."
Perhaps Reinette's prayers worked. Although there were constant troubles in the morning, at least everything went smoothly in the afternoon, which calmed Reinette's irritable mood a lot.
Through the car window, Reinette watched the sun gradually setting in the distance, then she scanned the surrounding wilderness, and soon, Reinette found her target.
It was a pile of rocks. It looked like it was originally two rocks eroded by wind, but one of them was eroded too severely and collapsed on its own and then piled together.
After driving the car to the pile of rocks, Reinette got out and went into the medical room in the back of the car.
As for why he doesn't drive at night, Reinette said that the roads in the wilderness are not the asphalt roads of his previous life, or in other words, there are roads everywhere in the wilderness as long as you dare to drive.
But driving in the wilderness at night is not advisable unless you really want to die.
Even if you turn the light on at the brightest, it can only illuminate an area of about a few dozen meters in front of you, and it may not even illuminate the entire area.
If a rock suddenly appears in front of you while you are driving, it would be a small matter if the car flies away.
Stare
As soon as she entered, Reinette was baptized by red's eyes.
"Did I wake you up? Or did you not fall asleep after driving?" After closing the door, Reinette walked to red and touched her head.
I have to say, every time I touch it, the red ears will sway back and forth, which feels quite good.
red shook her head. The vibration of driving did not wake her up. She only woke up after she felt Reinette's breath after the car stopped. Naturally, it could not be said that she was woken up by Reinette.
" red, you still can't move?"
"Not yet, red, be good, it will be fine in two days."
"Okay, Mom, red understands."
Reinette opened her mouth, wanting to continue persuading red to change the way she addressed him, but looking at red's innocent eyes, she could only sigh and let it go again.
"never mind."
"Does mom need to rest?"
"Yeah, we've been driving all day. Don't move. I have this." Reinette waved her hand to interrupt red who was trying to force herself to get up.
Then she fell backwards, right onto a ball of water that had appeared behind her at some point.
"That's all."
As for whether the water ball would lose control and disperse after she fell asleep, causing her to fall to the ground, Reinette was not worried about this, as it was not the first time she had done this.
Reinette stretched lazily on the water ball, adjusted her sleeping position, and reached out to touch the little red head beside her.
"Good night, Red~"
"Good night, mother."