Chapter 13: Wasteland
Chapter 13: Wasteland
Let's turn our attention back to Reinette.
As for Penguin Logistics, what kind of tragedy will you cause?
Let's put that aside for now. All we can say is that on that
night, some residents near the safe house complained to the siracusa security that
someone was in danger.
It was probably screaming, begging for mercy, and screaming
and wailing. The crying and shouting sounded shrill and resisting, mixed with
the wild laughter of the two.
"How do you feel? Miss Laplande, are you still feeling
any severe pain?"
"I don't feel any obvious pain anymore, Ms. Tiamat, your
medical skills are excellent, but I just want to ask you whether you can bring
your daughter away from me."
Lappland said with a somewhat collapsed smile, "Only she
herself knew what it felt like when she opened her eyes early this morning and
found that her tail is numb as She turned around and saw the wolf hunter lying
on her tail and stroking it."
"Sorry, sorry." Reinette walked over, grabbed Red by
the back of her neck, and directly took Red off Lappland's tail.
"This child is just throwing a tantrum because the reward
that was originally promised to her has to be delayed."
Reinette hugged Red in her arms and touched her head.
Last night, Reinette and Red said that since Lappland was
there, the agreement that they would transform back to their original form in
the wilderness and then let her touch their tail would have to wait until
later.
However, Reinette did not expect that the child would actually
sneak over and forcibly touch Lappland's tail, and it looked like the child had
been touching it since midnight until it was just taken off.
The fur on the tail had been tangled together by being
stroked, becoming extremely messy. Compared to the smooth tail yesterday, the
current tail had become extremely unbearable.
Lappland looked at her tail with some heartache. As a Luper,
not everyone could touch her tail. She usually took good care of it, but it was
touched like this today. She feel like has been molested.
"I'm so sorry." Reinette looked at Lappland's tail
apologetically, thought for a while and snapped her fingers. A ball of water
suddenly appeared and wrapped Lappland's tail.
"Hey, what are you doing? My tail is already like this,
what else are you going to do?"
"Help you sort it out."
The ball of water wrapped around Lappland's tail trembled
slightly, and every water molecule inside was flowing, helping the tangled hair
to return to a straight state.
"It looks interesting, but it will take some time to
dry."
"Don't worry about that, water sublimation and heat
mist."
The water mass trembled, and the water molecules inside were
heated into hot mist in a very short time, but Lapland did not feel any burning
sensation, only a hint of warmth.
Lapland could only judge the temperature of the water mass
from the boiling water on the surface, which made Lapland itchy and he wanted
to reach in and touch it.
Just as Lappland reached out his hand, Reinette reached out to
stop him.
"Don't try to reach out, it's very hot in here."
Reinette took the room key on the table, put it into the
water, let the key touch the constantly surging steam inside, and after a while
took it out and put it on Lappland's hand.
"It's so hot!" Lappland withdrew her hand in an
instant, and the place where the skin touched had turned red.
"My tail doesn't feel hot at all, how could it be so
hot?"
"It's just a little precise control, it should be
fine." Reinette waved her hand to remove the water ball, exposing the tail
to the air. After being straightened out by the water ball, the tail was no
longer as messy as before. After being baptized by steam, the tail became
fluffy and smooth.
"Oh, that's great. Let's forget about this matter. It
really took up a lot of time. But how are you going to get me to leave? I am a
wanted criminal."
"For the time being, but don't worry about that. Come
with me."
Reinette complained casually, then waved to Lapland
indifferently.
"Don't even think about it. This hotel is also a family
asset. Once I show up, family members will come soon. They won't give face to a
doctor like you."
"I'm not so arrogant as to think that my identity as a
doctor carries much weight. In the last city, the gangs here didn't give me any
respect at all."
"Oh, what happened? From your tone, a lot has
happened."
Lapland's curiosity was immediately piqued. She was very
curious about what the doctor had done to deserve such a request.
"Nothing. Since you know me, you should know that I carry
out medical activities for 15 days every time I go to a city. The same was true
in the last city."
When Lappland heard this, he showed a look of understanding.
"I understand. It's nothing more than a gang. They don't
want you to get involved in their medical business or something like that. If I
put it on another phrase, they don't want to get involved with trouble".
"Yes, I found a place to start medical activities. At
first, no one came. I thought my reputation had not spread here yet. This time,
by chance, I found out that it was actually the gangs who had been stopping
people around."
"They wouldn't be so careless as to let you find them. I
think they did it on purpose, just to let you find them. The person you saw
being stopped is probably also a gang member."
"I didn't think too much about it at the time. I just
went straight to their door. Just like you said, they were waiting for me
there. It was a banquet to show my power."
(T/n: I bet she got lot of patients on that place after beating
someone)
"Look at your expression. It seems like you didn't eat
anything at the Banquet."
"Yeah, because they were a little angry at that time, so
they all drowned in the water. In the end, their attitudes became much better.
Okay, let's stop talking."
"Didn't I tell you? If we just go out like this, they
won't..." As Lappland was speaking, she suddenly noticed that the
surrounding environment seemed a little blurry.
Laplande is very confident in her eyesight. If her eyes
suddenly became blurred, Laplande would not be alive today. Since it is not her
problem, it is very likely that it happened to her.
"What did you do?"
"Wait a minute, I need to adjust. This is much harder
than I thought."
Then Lapland watched Reinette's figure, which appeared and
disappeared in front of her, and finally disappeared in front of her.
"This is?"
"Miss Laplande, you know that sometimes illusions appear
in the wilderness."
Lappland certainly knew this, because she was not in the
mobile city all the time. After she left her family, she often wandered in the
wilderness. She was naturally aware of these illusions that appeared from time
to time in the wilderness.
"The principle of my trick is similar to that. I use the
small water droplets I place in the air to change the light path, making people
invisible from a visual perspective."
In Lapland's view, the setting moon in front of her appeared
suddenly as if in a flash.
Reinette spread her hands and said helplessly: "But it's
a pity that this trick has no practical value. A little sudden strong light can
break the refraction path I set up with great difficulty."
"I see. With this trick, there won't be any problem
getting out."
"As long as your luck isn't extremely bad, there
shouldn't be any problem."
As Reinette spoke, she raised her hand and closed her eyes to
adjust the refraction path to achieve invisibility. The difficulty was much
greater than Reinette had initially thought, and it was meaningless.
This is only the difficulty when standing with a relatively
stable light source. If she is going to take Lappland downstairs later, Reinette
may even have to let Red lead her and walk slowly forward.
She had to concentrate on controlling the water droplets
around Lappland to ensure that the position of the light source would not
change due to walking, thus exposing Lappland.
But fortunately, she doesn't need to do this, the water body
can help her solve this problem.
After a few days of practice, water clones appearance has
become exactly the same as her real self. All that is needed is to give clone
an order to follow Red, and it will be enough to make the fake look real.
After that, I can let the water clone come back along the same
route and go out again. It's a bit troublesome, but it's better to have some
trouble now than to deal with the possible situation that may occur if Lappland
is discovered later.
After a while, Reinette breathed a sigh of relief and threw
the car key to red: "red, I'll leave the rest to you."
"Red, I understand."
"Be safe, and Miss Laplander, please don't stay so far away
from Red. You're making things difficult for me."
Reinette turned her head and looked at Lappland, who was
keeping a distance of one meter from Red in the mist.
Lapland, who was in the mist, twitched her lips. "It's
hard for you. You let me get so close to her. Are you did it on purpose?"
I got goosebumps all over my body.
Fortunately, Lappland was not a pretentious person, and could
only endure the panic spreading from her whole body and stand behind Red.
Reinette walked around the two of them, and a ball of water
appeared behind her. The water ball slowly squirmed and turned into a water clone
in front of Lappland. Then it shook again, and various colors slowly appeared
on the water body.
Lappland looked carefully at the water clone in front of her.
Apart from the fact that her eyes looked a little strange and the reflection on
her body was a little too obvious, there was almost no other flaw.
Reinette sat on the bed, closed her eyes, and began to
concentrate. She couldn't be distracted for a moment.
Red looked at her mother who was sitting on the bed with her
eyes closed, then turned and stared at Lappland, whose tail had been standing
behind her since a while ago.
"Okay, Miss Red, stop looking at me and lead the
way." Lappland shook her tail nervously.
I guess I will targeted by wolf hunters for as long as she
still around
Ha, I'm really looking forward to finding Texas after arriving
at Longmen. I must let her see it. I'm really looking forward to what
expression she'll have.
...
Reinette climbed onto the driver's seat and knocked her head.
The precise operation just now made her head a little dizzy.
"In the future, if it is absolutely not necessary, never
use this trick. It is completely useless and will only give you a headache
after using it."
Red, who was sitting in the passenger seat, saw her mother
supporting her head and reached out to touch Reinette's head. She had been
touched like that by her mother many times before, and her head felt very
comfortable after that.
"Hmm?" Reinette turned his head and looked at Red
who reached out to touch him. She smiled and also reached out to touch Red's
head.
"Lapland is in the back carriage, right?"
Red nodded.
"Okay, let's go, let's go!"
...Dragon Gate...
"A-choo!" Texas, who was driving, suddenly sneezed.
"Ah, Texas, look at the road, look at the road!"
Croissant, who was sitting in the passenger seat, shouted anxiously. They were
on an overpass now!
Texas did a drift, but it was obviously too late given the
speed they were driving at, and the rear compartment of the car hit the railing
on the viaduct directly.
The car shook a series of times, causing Exusiai, who was
leaning out of the window and shooting backwards, to pat the roof to express her
dissatisfaction.
(T/n: only Texas has driving certificate)
"Texas, be serious, you almost threw me out, wow! You
dared to fight back!"
Texas saw through the rearview mirror that the railing had
just been knocked crooked by their car, and sighed inwardly, knowing that she
would have to pay the ticket later.
Although they, Penguin Logistics, shoot and fight, and are
sometimes even involved in some special explosions, sometimes those explosions
are caused by them.
But they are still a legal business because they always pay
the fines in a timely manner and also pay a portion of the damage caused by
other participants in the incident.
Suddenly, the rearview mirror on the Texas side was shattered
by a flying arrow and fell to the ground.
"What a trouble!" Texas turned the steering wheel
sharply, did a tailspin, smashed the railing on the side, and drove directly
into another lane in the opposite direction.
I have to pay the ticket anyway, so I guess my boss won't say
anything if I pay an extra one.
It looks like today is another restless day for Penguin
Logistics.
...wilderness...
"It's really exquisite. I didn't expect Miss Tiamat to
bring so many seasonings to the wilderness."
"If I can eat well, why not? I'm not short of money. And
didn't I tell you to just call me Reinette? , to be honest, I always think this
name sounds weird."
Reinette squatted beside the fire, stirring the iron pot on
the stove with a spoon.
"I think it's good. How long will it take?"
"It will be ready soon. Until then..."
Reinette suddenly raised her hand and condensed a huge water
curtain in the air. In the black night sky, several arrows suddenly flew over,
but they just fell into the capture range of the water curtain and lost their
momentum to move forward.
"You can do some digestion exercises first. I think it
should be better when you come back. How about it, Miss Laplander? Are you
interested?"
Before Reinette could finish her words, she heard Lappland
laughing wildly, picking up her weapon and rushing towards the direction where
the arrow had just come from.
"What an impatient person, Red!"
A hand slowly stretched out from the water curtain in the sky,
just grabbed the neck of Red who was called by her, and brought Red back.
"Red, please don't go. Let Miss Laplander relax. Besides,
I just washed your clothes for you."
"I see, Mom."
Reinette stirred the contents of the pot calmly, listening to
the sound of the wind coming from the wilderness and the constant screams in
the distance.