Last Totem Novel - Chapter 19

Chapter 19 Long Journey
Tie Zha recovered from the side effects of the stimulants and frowned in frustration, as if he was recalling what had just happened.

“Brother Tie, your doping is getting out of control for a longer time now. It’s better not to use it again.” Said Lard-bucket.

“We didn’t use it just now. We’re already dead.” Tie Zha shook his head.

“I didn’t manage it well!” The fat man sighed and said, “I didn’t expect that Silver City 13 would reach into the Hiroshi Clan.”

“They are all shameless people!” You Ge waved his small white fist and said through gritted teeth, “The people of Silver City 13 are the most disobedient, especially the people of the Lei Ling Clan. They can do whatever they want to for their own benefit.”

At this time, You Ge finds that Tie Zha and Lard-bucket are looking at her with disdain. The expressions on their faces seem to be saying, ‘The people above you are all the same.’

“We are different from Number 17” You Ge replied, “Forget it, you won’t understand.”

Next, Tie Zha and Lard-bucket rummaged through the gas station, clearing out all the valuables and tossing them into the pickup truck. The duo then searched the gas station for barrels of fuel filled with pickup trucks and motorcycle tanks. After doing all of this, they proficiently poured the remaining fuel around the gas station and burned it down.

“This is a stronghold of the Blue Wolf Guild. Someone will come and check it out soon. Let’s hurry up and leave,” Big Fatty warned as he looked at the gas station that was lit up with flames. “This is a stronghold of the Blue Wolf Guild.”

Tie Zha took out a photo from his pocket and handed it to Big Fatty. He said, “This is the person Big Sister told me to kill. Search the city and wait for me to come back before making a move.”

Lard-bucket took the photo and looked at it. He carefully put it in his pocket and said solemnly, “Brother Tie, don’t worry about what I do.”

Tie Zha snorted coldly and said, “If we do this again, I will tell Big Sister to reason with you.”

“No, Brother Tie …” The fat man begged for mercy. He had taught that woman a few years ago.

At that time, Lena had just arrived in Tieshan Town to work. On her first day, a bloody storm broke out, and within twenty-four hours, she had uprooted the original forces of Tieshan Town. Her ruthless and ruthless wrist, Big Fatty, was still a little frightened when he recalled it. If she hadn’t taken a fancy to the iron slag back then, the fat man in charge of running errands would have already been cleaned out along with the old forces.

Tie Zha felt much more comfortable when he saw the fat man sweating all over his head. The precarious situation that he had been in just now was due to this fat man’s misconduct. He continued to say a few threatening words, stepped on the motorcycle and drove You Ge away.

Rumbling sounds echoed as the red comet sailed into the boundless northern wilderness, eventually turning into a small red dot.

Lard-bucket watched them leave, curled his lips, shook his fat head, and drove away.

Twenty minutes later, Tie Zha looked back at Sand City, which had disappeared from the horizon, and stopped the motorcycle. Under You Ge’s questioning gaze, he took out a map from his canvas pocket at the back of the motorcycle and laid it flat on the ground.

He drew a map and began to explain the journey to You Ge.

Silver City’s military base was located 1,300 kilometers northeast of Sand City. The first half of the road is mainly semi-desertified wastelands, and the second half is mainly highways.

There were some mutated creatures in the wilderness, but the main danger still came from scavengers. They were a bunch of vagrants living in the wilderness, usually using simple weapons. All travelers in the wilderness are hunted unless they think you’re a rock they can’t chew on.

“You’re harder than a stone.” You Ge interrupted and commented.

Tie Zha didn’t know if it was a compliment or a derogatory meaning, so he didn’t answer this question and continued explaining the journey.

Although the wastelands are dangerous, motorcycles can run on tires. Therefore, as long as they were more cautious, there wouldn’t be any trouble on the road. At present, the biggest trouble came from the supplies along the way. Red comets are oiled every 400 kilometers. Before arriving at their destination, they must pass through three small towns and buy fuel in them.

In the wilderness world, the law is not very useful. For the residents of those small towns, the other identity of the traveller was the fat chicken.

Tie Zha looked at You Ge, then looked up at the sky, as if he remembered something.

A moment later …

“You are a fat chicken.” Tie Zha said seriously.

You Ge retorts with a flushed face, “You … you are the one …”

Afterwards, Tie Zha asked You Ge to use canvas robes to cover her figure and appearance as much as possible. A girl like her was like a sweet cake in the wilderness. Everyone wanted to take a bite.

“Am I beautiful?” You Ge gently strands her hair and strokes her silver hair to the back of her ear, revealing her exquisite and small ears. Under the sunlight, the thin eardrums emitted a faint red light, and one could clearly see the tiny blood vessels inside. She smiled sweetly and her eyes curved into the shape of a crescent moon.

As she smiled slowly, the light in her clear eyes flowed, as if it was about to drip out of her mouth.

In a few years, she would become a big demon like Lena. Perhaps in some ways, it would be even more lethal, Tie Zha couldn’t help but think.

“Huh?” You Ge captures his momentary distraction and asks.

‘”Normal” Tie Zha came back to his senses and immediately replied. However, this is no longer convincing to You Ge.

“Is that so?” You Ge asks craftily, and the smile in his eyes becomes even more intense.

“Alright.” Tie Zha spread out his hands and shrugged his shoulders. “I admit that you are much more beautiful than the women in the alleys of Tie Shan Town.”

You Ge’s smile instantly froze. She really wanted to slap him! He actually confused her with Liu Ying and placed her on both ends of the scale for comparison! This was an insult and a blasphemy to a noble lady who had a good background and was clean from childhood.

Tie Zha turned around and looked at the girl whose complexion was gradually turning cold. He scratched his head in puzzlement. He had clearly said something nice and praised her appearance to the fullest extent, but she did not appreciate it at all. The people above Silver City really didn’t understand.

You Ge looks at Tie Zha scratching his head and his mind flashes. She quickly understood the reason behind it, and then she was relieved. However, in this relief, there was a deep and heavy feeling.

Perhaps the only beautiful women he had seen since childhood were those Liu Ying. Perhaps, those women could also be called beautiful.

You Ge is not wrong, it is indeed the case. Tie Zha had said the same thing when he first met Lena. However, Lena, who came from Sand City, understood the youth’s heart better, and she accepted his praise happily at the first possible moment.

The relieved You Ge smiles again. She raised her sharp chin, wrinkled her little nose, and snorted, “I’m much prettier than them.” She went on to emphasize, “And I’m clean. I’ve never been touched by another man.”

Tie Zha wanted to say, ‘What’s the difference?’ However, he swallowed his words back. He instinctively sensed that this sentence might cause the Third Miss of the Lombardi Clan to be unhappy.

“Let’s go. We need to get to the vicinity of the Rock Bridge in two days.” Tie Zha changed the topic while putting away the map and signaling You Ge to get in the car.

You Ge gets in the car and asks him curiously why he rushes there. She remembered the map she had just seen. The Locke Bridge was located about 400 kilometers northeast of Sand City. That might be the first point of replenishment for the iron cinders.

Iron slag explained to her while driving the motorcycle.

The Rock Bridge was the only way to Silver City Military Base 17. The Sand City Autonomous Committee set up checkpoints there and then levied tolls on tourists.

The people who manage the bridge often find some baffling reason to make things difficult for travelers to pass by and use it to search for money. These managers change shifts once a month. Usually, by the end of the month, they would receive more benefits and would be relatively timid. After all, their wallets were bulging, and they would be able to enjoy themselves for a while after returning to Sand City. Therefore, Tie Zha had to cross the bridge before they changed shifts, which could save a lot of money and trouble.

“Are these people official officials of the Sand City Autonomous Committee?” You Ge asks.

“Probably …” Iron slag replied uncertainly.

“These people are hateful!” You Ge says indignantly.

“Speaking of which, it is precisely because the existence of this bridge has hindered trade in the northeast. Many businessmen and travelers would rather walk long distances than take the bridge.”

You Ge thinks for a while, then says with a smile, “I didn’t expect you to be quite smart, knowing that it will affect the transaction.”

Tie Zha couldn’t help but roll his eyes. This was another sentence that couldn’t be distinguished between praise and disdain.

“You should go to school.” You Ge suddenly says

Tie Zha was silent for a while and asked, “Where should I learn?”

“Go to Silver City No.17. I’ll sponsor you.”

Tie Zha was silent for a while, then laughed self-deprecatingly. His ident. I.ty as an insect-like mutant was nowhere to be found.

“Trust me.”

You Ge raises the palm of his right hand, his gaze firmly tilts forty-five degrees as he looks into the distant horizon and says piously,

“I, Yoga Lombar, swear on the honor and reputation of my family …”

“I’m not going!” “I’m not going anywhere. I just want to go back to Tieshan Town.”

“Go back and pick up trash for the rest of your life?” You Ge asks coldly.

“I grew up in a garbage dump. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with picking up garbage.”

“Alright …”

You Ge’s helpless tone is filled with disappointment and loneliness …

Tie Zha secretly sighed. When he was very young, his foster father discovered his special physique. The old man often warned him not to go to any Silver City or military bases in Silver City, where genetic abnormality scanners were usually installed.

Far away from any temple believers, they viewed the insecticized mutant as a heretic, believing that the insecticized mutant was the result of the demon’s possession and the medium through which the demon invaded this world.

Those Temple Crusaders, Sacred Flame Judges, and Sacred Light Cleansers had zero tolerance for insecticized mutants.

The Temple often organizes purification teams to search for and purify insecticide mutants around the world.

The majority of Silver City’s policies towards the insecticized mutants were basically based on the Temple’s intervention.

Fortunately, out of the three major religions in the world, only the Temple had a completely obliterating attitude towards the insect-like mutants.

Notre Dame is neutral on insecticidal variants. Neither welcome nor purposely expelled.

The temple that believed in ancestor worship had a sympathetic and compassionate attitude towards the insectivated mutants. They believe that insecticized mutants are also part of humanity, sharing the glory of their ancestors in the genetic chain.

Unfortunately, the temple was the weakest of the three major religions. In the world as a whole, the Temple has 67 per cent of the parishes, Notre Dame has 26 per cent and the Temple has only 7 per cent.