The days when I wanted to be a human being

On the way to the cafeteria, Zhou Ling said to the two muscular men in front of her: "The door... is not locked... is everything okay?"

Ace turned around and said to her with a smile: "Don't worry, this is the Longmen Guard Bureau. No thief would come here to steal things."

"But... there are all kinds of people in this world. Maybe... there are people who are willing to take the risk."

"Did you put a lot of red gold in the room? Or some treasure?"

"No, you...weapons..." Zhou Ling said that all her important things were placed in the space of the armor and she was not afraid at all. She was worried about the weapons of the two men.

Herag stopped, turned around and said, "Stop it, it's right to be cautious, but sometimes, you should relax."

During those few nights in the wilderness, he had agreed with Ace that they would take turns keeping watch so that she could have a good rest, and he did not arrange for her to keep watch. Unexpectedly, she was not happy about it and insisted on taking turns keeping watch as well.

In the end, the two men couldn't persuade her and let her join the vigil.

Worried about her lack of experience, the two of them took turns keeping watch with her.

When Hellagur was on guard alone, he noticed that even if she was sleeping, she would be awakened by the slightest movement.

He had seen that kind of situation many times on the battlefield. People were sensitive and suspicious. Generally speaking, every soldier who survived on the battlefield had these symptoms to a certain extent, and it took a lot of time to eliminate them.

He was originally skeptical about Zhou Ling's origins. After all, he heard from the people at Black Steel International that no one knew where she came from and she appeared suddenly.

Normally, she always acted like an adult when communicating with them, causing them to ignore the fact that she was still a child.

Occasionally, her behavior would reveal a childishness that she herself had never noticed, which made Herag realize that she was once a child who was well protected by her parents.

I don’t know what she went through to become what she is now, but I guess it’s not worth remembering.

After figuring this out, Hellagur did not try to find out the source of his identity any further.

The earth is not picky when it comes to eating people.

Whether it is a child or an adult is not important at all, and what the identity is is naturally not important either.

She is capable enough, and being able to protect herself is already a great thing, so why should she ask for anything more.

Herag continued to walk with his long legs, but his steps were very small.

Zhou Ling was a little shorter than the other two, so when they walked with her, they would usually slow down or shorten their pace in order to take care of her. This was a tacit understanding developed in the wilderness.

Of course, this only happens when there is no emergency.

In emergencies, they would move as fast as possible, and they knew she could keep up.

For Zhou Ling, a girl who was only slightly taller than him.

His view is that he has powers that ordinary people don't have, but he is not very skilled in using them.

She is somewhat lacking in life aspects and has no common sense. She can't even distinguish between Originium worms. Once, she was almost blown up to the sky by a high-energy Originium worm.

"But..." What Zhou Ling really wanted to say was, don't you all cherish your weapons?

She had observed many times that both of them were very gentle with their weapons, carefully wiping and maintaining them with a cloth after each use.

Seeing that Zhou Ling still wanted to discuss with Hellagur whether to lock the door or not, Ace began to change the subject.

"You must have had a good rest today. You slept from noon till almost midnight now."

Ace had a sympathetic attitude towards this girl with extremely amazing combat abilities.

She possessed extraordinary power, but her mastery was not high, at least in his opinion.

She had patience and rationality that a child did not have. During those days in the wilderness, when there were not enough meals to eat, he and Herag thought that she was a child after all, so they thought of giving her food first.

Unexpectedly, she rejected me. The reason was that she said she had no experience in surviving in the wilderness and could only rely on two people, so they should ensure their food supply first.

She was still a clean child. In the wilderness, there was often yellow sand all over the sky, and her body and face were covered with sand and dust.

At the beginning, every time she ate, she would wash her hands and face first and then rinse her mouth, and she would even rinse her mouth after eating.

Later, she seemed to be worried about not having enough water, so she gave up the habit of washing her hands and face, but asked him for a pair of gloves.

It turns out that this is to avoid getting too much dust on hands, so people usually wear gloves and take them off when eating.

I think that a family that can develop such a habit would not be an ordinary family.

She must have a good pair of parents.

"Very good... indeed... it's been good to rest... these past few days."

Zhou Ling chatted aimlessly with the two people in front of her.

Of course she noticed that Ace was trying to divert attention, but seeing that the two of them had no intention of arguing about locking the door, she followed their lead and changed the conversation to something else.

The closer they got to the cafeteria, the more people they passed by.

Before I even got to the cafeteria, I could already hear a lot of talking.

"…What's going on recently? Why are you so busy all of a sudden?"

"do not you know?"

"what do you know?"

"There was a riot in Chernobyl, and many people fled to Longmen."

"Ah? When did this happen?"

"It's been happening for several days. Didn't your team leader notify you?"

"*Longmen swears* I knew it, that guy must have forgotten again!"

When I arrived at the Guard Bureau cafeteria, I found that there were still quite a lot of people here.

It was already late at night, but it was still very lively here.

I guess they all work the night shift.

"Are you three new people?" the uncle serving the food asked doubtfully, but he didn't care too much.

The cafeteria still adopted the most basic way of serving food. Looking at the uncle serving the food, his hands were shaking from time to time, looking like five lightning whips.

The dish in the bowl has more meat than vegetables.

The result was just as she expected. The old man saw that she was small and gave her dishes that, in her opinion, had almost no meat.

It was only after Herag's persuasion that he gave her some more food.

The three of them chose a secluded place to eat so as not to attract too much attention.

But the combination of the three had already attracted the attention of most of the police officers who were having meals in the cafeteria.

However, the police officers just took a quick look and moved on to talk about other things.

Zhou Ling's hearing had been greatly enhanced after she broke through her limit for the second time, so she could hear some information that others could not hear.

"Have you heard? The riot in Chernobog was caused by the Integration Movement."

"Well... I heard that they are worried that members of the Reunion Movement will sneak into the fleeing group, so they have recently deployed more quarantine personnel at the checkpoints entering the city."

"And the slums seem to be in turmoil recently. I suspect... there are members of the Integration Movement mixed in."

"Really? Who told you that?"

"Don't tell anyone about this. A relative of mine lives in the slums. I heard that people from the Integration Movement are recruiting people."

"what!"

"Keep your voice down."

……

When Zhou Ling heard this, she realized something was wrong. Why did the Integration Movement follow her wherever she went?

Was it because her survival challenge had only lasted less than a week? Was she going to have no chance of getting through this?

"Ahem! Ahem..."

Suddenly, the chili pepper she had eaten choked her throat, causing her to focus her attention on her surroundings.

It turned out that when she was distracted and eavesdropping on other people's conversation, she accidentally swallowed a chili pepper.

"If you can't eat spicy food, don't force yourself to eat it. Look how uncomfortable it makes you feel. Drink some soup to relieve it."

Herag noticed from the beginning that she was not concentrating on eating, but he didn't say anything. As long as he was idle, he would easily let his thoughts wander.

“No…it’s okay.” Zhou Ling frowned and wondered, he obviously used to like spicy food very much, but now he couldn’t accept it, even just a little bit of spiciness.

I don’t know if it’s because of my current body.

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Notes:

1. Xiang Zhan: Hellagur’s sword, about 157 cm, this data comes from the Internet.