Last Totem Novel - Chapter 32

Chapter 32 Alms Giving
The old bull carried the fuel barrel and filled the red comet with oil. He returned to the tin shed and continued to study the blueprints. The oiled red comet began to run around the garage again until Tie Zha called her back.

“You go in and look at the blueprints with Old Niu and exchange some information with him. I don’t have the money to buy Sand Sea Flying Fish, so you guys should discuss some other ways.”

[Friend, if there’s a shortage of money, Alice suggests you go to the Iron Mountain Town Council and borrow from Lena Ucolis.]

“I won’t borrow money from her, and she doesn’t have much money.”

[Friend, upgrading Alice’s body will improve your combat ability and data analysis ability.]

[Lena earns about 600 gold a year as a sheriff of Iron Mountain Town. Aside from 200 gold a year, she has been a sheriff for three years and has at least 1,200 gold in her account.]

“How do you know so clearly?” Tie Zha couldn’t help but frown and ask in a deep voice.

[This is the information Alice obtained on the computer of the Iron Mountain Town Autonomous Society. Alice’s database contains the latest information in all fields of the world. As long as the information can be found on the Internet, Alice will have a backup.]

“You have all the information in the world?” Tie Zha asked in surprise.

[For today’s information only, Alice recommends connecting to the Internet every once in a while for the latest information]

“Since you know everything, please give us some more useful advice, for example, a way to make money quickly.” Ye Xinling, who had been sitting beside Tie Zha, interrupted.

[According to Alice’s analysis, the easiest way for a friend to get a loan from Lena Euclid is based on her current abilities and condition.]

“What about the second method?” Iron slag asked.

[Consider Alice’s suggestion that we can’t raise the funds needed to upgrade in the short term in our current state.]

“I will never borrow money from a woman. Stop mentioning it.” Tie Zha said impatiently.

[Friend, you have an old masculine ethos. Alice suggests reading romance novels and revising radical ideologies.]

“I really should tear you apart.” As he spoke, Tie Zha reached out and touched the hilt of the knife behind him.

[Friend, your renin level is rising rapidly. Alice recommends you calm down first.]

The red comet let out a mechanical synthesis sound as it retreated. Then, it slipped into the tin shed and went to find the old cow to exchange information.

In the tin shed, Old Cow and Divine Doctor Shui looked at the blueprints on the computer screen and exclaimed from time to time. The blueprints Alice had given contained a large amount of scientific and technological information, which was a design concept they had never seen before. According to Old Niu’s preliminary estimate, if these modifications were completed, the Red Comet would not only greatly improve its performance as a locomotive, it would also have the ability to self-repair and self-transform. Divine Doctor Shui, who was at the side, also praised the blueprints. However, he soon remembered that his clinic had not opened for two days. There were only two doctors in Tieshan Town. If he didn’t go back, many patients might not be treated. So he stood up and said goodbye, heading straight back to Tieshan Town.

Not long after, Tie Zha brought Ye Xinling back to the stronghold to rest. Only Old Cow and Alice were left in the repair shop. Old Niu was obsessed with studying the blueprints and copying them with a pen and paper. Alice quietly left the tin shed and walked around the repair shop. She was like a toddler, fresh to everything. The old bull’s repair shop was littered with all sorts of abandoned parts and debris. Alice scanned every object that appeared in her image generator. Not long after, she scanned everything in the repair shop, including the old electrical appliances, metal components, bottles and cans, even the clothes and underwear of the old cow …

At this moment, a sand truck appeared in her image generator. She carefully slid over. Blue and green light shot out from the front of the car and started scanning the sandy car. Dozens of seconds later, the scan ended and she compared the data from the sand truck to the data in the database. She quickly came to the conclusion that it was an H172 sandtruck manufactured by Great Wall Corporation. Then, Alice began to calculate and analyze. In a situation of scarcity of resources, she had to make the most of her limited resources to get the greatest promotion. A few minutes later, Alice let out a “beep” and completed the new design.

After that, Alice returned to the tin shed and showed the old bull the latest design. The idea is to fix the red comet to the body of the sandwich and connect the sandwich’s computer to Alice’s. The advantage of doing so is that Alice can park on the retainer in the body to control the sand truck, or can open the retainer to leave the sand truck at any time. The advantage of sand trucks is that they are larger and can carry large amounts of rough equipment. Compared with precision small-scale equipment, rough large-scale equipment is easy to collect parts, and the requirements for the workmanship level and the degree of old and new components are not high. Although there were still some functional gaps, they could at least meet Alice’s basic needs.

Old Niu looked at the new plan and immediately patted his thigh. The parts in the new scheme are easier to get, and not only can they be used, but they are also very cheap. Everything was missing in Tieshan Town, the last thing missing was old parts. Thinking of this, Old Niu ran into the warehouse of the repair shop excitedly and counted his inventory. He then began recording missing parts against the drawings of the new scheme. Only after nightfall did he register the missing parts and write a full notebook.

At this time, the old bull yawned. He hasn’t slept for two days in a row, so he’s in a trance. He randomly found a place and went to sleep at the end …

Meanwhile, Tie Zha and Ye Xinling were enjoying a candlelight dinner at a restaurant in Tieshan Town. This is a western restaurant called “Far Mountain Tourists”. It has a history of more than 50 years in Tieshan Town. Every corner here was carved with traces of time. At this moment, the dim light shone on the half-brick and half-wood wall, barely able to see the seven or eight messy scratches and bullet holes on the wall. If you look closely, you can see some paper scraps hanging on the wall. These scraps of paper are traces left after the wanted poster was torn off.

This used to be a bounty hunter’s paradise, and every night it was bustling with excitement. The waiter squeezed through the crowd with his glass in hand. Liuying whispered and flirted on the hunter’s body. The dancer twisted her hot body on the high platform. However, all of this gradually disappeared after the violent policewoman entered Tieshan Town. Because the crime rate in Tieshan Town had plummeted and arrest warrants were getting fewer and fewer, those bounty hunters had no quest to do, so they had to go somewhere else.

Without the patronage of the bounty hunter, the restaurant’s business plummeted. The restaurant owner had no choice but to dismiss the waiter and Liu Ying and start a business in the western restaurant. In the dining room, there was a thick wooden dining table with candles lit on it. Under the flickering candlelight, the guests whispered in a quiet and harmonious atmosphere. However, this was only a temporary appearance. Tie Shan Town had never had a harmonious place, and the bullet-ridden log dining table was proof of this.

However, there were always exceptions, because the iron slag was sitting in the corner of the restaurant. This meant that everyone involved in the conflict had to consider whether they would offend this fierce god. Not long ago, Tie Shan Town’s number two figure died tragically under the blade of the fierce god. His corpse was split into two and then trampled to pieces. This matter quickly spread in Tie Shan Town, so much so that when Tie Zha stepped into western food, at least half of the people paid their bills and left.

At this moment, the iron slag was leisurely shaking the wine cup in his hand. The light brown brandy emitted a golden luster under the illumination of the candlelight. Meanwhile, Ye Xinling sat opposite him and looked at the menu. She prepared to order some food and bring it back to the old cow to eat.

At this moment, a young man rashly ran into the restaurant and said to the restaurant owner in the bar, “Old … boss, I’m going to ask for leave tomorrow!”

The restaurant owner frowned and scolded, “Keep your voice down. The guests are all eating.”

Instead of lowering his voice, the young man shouted louder, “Good news! The people from Notre Dame will be giving alms tomorrow. There will be bread hair and beauties watching!”

The young man’s words stirred up a commotion, and the guests whispered to each other.

“It’s such a pity that I didn’t ask for leave last time. I heard that the chicks from Notre Dame are getting prettier and prettier.” “It’s just two pieces of broken bread. It’s not particularly delicious. Furthermore, what does beauty have to do with you? They’re all from above.”

“Darling, you’re not going to see it, are you?” “I never go. What’s so good about those crazy women?”

“I heard that there was a priest dressed in light blue in the team last time. She looked exceptionally handsome. I heard that she used to be a wanderer in Tieshan Town.” “You can go. I definitely won’t go anyway. Those nuns are fine. What I hate the most is to follow their guards. They are all ruffians from Base 13. They are bad and arrogant.”

It took a while for the commotion in the dining hall to calm down. The guests discussed only three points. The nuns of Notre Dame were all very beautiful, and the guards accompanying the nuns were very annoying. In the end, the local women were very disgusted with Notre Dame’s charity.

However, whether they liked it or not, there was nothing they could do to change that. Both Silver City and Tieshan Town were parishes of Notre Dame. Notre Dame would send people down to give alms every once in a while. The so-called giving was a group of nuns carrying baskets and distributing bread along the street. The basket was made of vines and contained cheese bread covered with checkered cloth. The group of alms givers usually set out at the southern gate of Tie Shan Town. Allowances were given along the main street until they reached the northern gate of Tie Shan Town.

Originally, Notre Dame’s charity was meant to be kind and should not cause people to feel disgusted. However, the troop was usually accompanied by soldiers from the Silver City Ground Military Base No. 13. Most of the soldiers were from the ground, and their identities were between Silver City residents and the ground residents. This awkward identity caused their mentality to distort. On the one hand, they felt that they were a part of Silver City, and on the other hand, Silver City did not really accept them. This caused them to be sandwiched between Silver City and the ground. They yearned for a comfortable life in Silver City, but were also eager to get rid of their identity as people on the ground. Therefore, they bowed to the people of Silver City, and were proud of the people of Silver City.